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Re: processing a file once within a nest for loop

by ferrency (Deacon)
on Feb 15, 2002 at 14:55 UTC ( [id://145685]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to processing a file once within a nest for loop

The reason why your code works as it does, is because when you use for or map, the loop variable is essentially a pointer to the value, not a copy of the value. So, if you change the value of the loop value, it changes the corresponding array element. This is the same behavior whether your loop variable is $_ or a lexical created with my.

The easiest way to patch this to make it work is to copy the loop variable into another temporary variable before doing the substitution:

# Warning, untested code below. for my $j(@templ) { my $k = $j; $k =~ s/^(\w+)\@DOMAIN$/$1\@$i/; print FH $k; } # Or: foreach (@templ) { my $j = $_; $j =~ s/^(\w+)\@DOMAIN$/$1\@$i/; print FH $j; }
Some people don't like temporary variables, especially in cases like this, where it looks like you could remove the variable with no ill effect to the code (but you can't). But, since this is perl, there are other ways to do it. One would be to match $j and then do the replacement in the print statement instead of using s///:

# Warning, untested code below. for (@templ) { /^(\w+)\@DOMAIN$/ and print FH "$1\@$i" or print FH; # implicitly prints $_ as usual } # Or if you prefer "if": for (@templ) { if (/^(\w+)\@DOMAIN$/) { print FH "$1\@$i"; } else { print FH; } }
I hope these help.

Alan

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