"Eri Mendz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> chomp(my @input = <STDIN>);
> my $total_elements = scalar(@input);
Assigning to a scalar variable puts the right-hand-side in scalar
context anyway.
my $total_elements = @input;
will do.
> print "You have entered $total_elements arguments.\n";
> print "They are: \n";
>
> foreach(1..$total_elements){
> print "\t\[$_\] my $input[$_ - 1 ]\n";
> }
>
> Just a quickie. Why did scalar $input in the foreach loop
> "works" without predeclaring it with my? I tried running both
> and it runs as expected. No scoping required for this control
> variable?
You're not actually using scalar $input, you're using $input[$_-1],
which is a scalar element of the array @input. You declared this
in your chomp() line at the start.
Cheers,
Rob
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