Hi Shlomi,

Never my intention of using un-friendly variables names as $a and $b
same as I am familiar with them used in sorting - mine was just an example
of something i am in need :)

Chanan


On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Shmuel,
>
> On Wed, 1 May 2013 17:09:34 +0900
> Shmuel Fomberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Chanan.
> >
> > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Chanan Berler wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Quick Perl question: Why I can not do something like this?
> > > my @arr = ((10,20), (100,200), (111,222));
> > >
> > > foreach my ($a,$b) (@arr)
> > > {
> > >    print "a=$a, b=$b\n";
> > > }
> > >
> >
> > Perl just doesn't support this syntax. Your array will be flatted, and
> > foreach get one variable at a time.
> >
> > you can do this:
> >
> > my @arr = ([10,20], [100,200], [111,222]);
> >
> > foreach my $rec (@arr)
> > {
> >    my ($a, $b) = @$rec;
>
> Please don't lexicalise $a and $b:
>
> http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/bad-elements/#vars-a-and-b
>
> Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish
>
> >    print "a=$a, b=$b\n";
> > }
> >
> > Shmuel.
>
>
>
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