On Sep 17, 2012, at 6:52 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I apologise for having sent that to Dr. Rathbun in private - that was not my
> intention but a misuse of software. Resending to the list.
>
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:31:01 -0700 (PDT)
> jmrhide-p...@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>> for (my $loopiter = 0; $loopiter < $loopmax; $loopiter++) { #1
>> if ($loopiter >= ($loopmax - 1)) { die "Loop number
>> $loopnum has iterated $loopiter times" }
>
> This line (#2) will throw an exception in the final iteration of the loop,
> so it's not good.
I think you missed the part where the loop is supposed to terminate before
$loopiter becomes equal to $loopmax, and if it does not terminate before then,
it is an error.
> You can use:
>
> for my $loopiter (0 .. $loopmax-1)
> {
> }
I would make that
for my $loopiter ( 1..$loopmax )
and get rid of the two subtractions.
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