On Jun 19, Bob Mangold said:
>I may have a bug somewhere in my code, but I can't find it. Before I
>look again though please answer this for me.
>my ($line) = "hello";
>foreach $line (<>){
> ..... whatever
>}
>print $line;
>
>Should it print the last line in <> or 'hello'?
I don't think the other responders tested their code. If they had, they'd
see that $line would retain its value.
my $line = 1;
for $line (1 .. 10) { ; }
print $line; # 1
This is because the looping variable is implicitly localized to the loop
itself. This is not a bug.
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