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[1 .. 5] ~~ sub { say "Inside loop $_[0]?" }; # Perl 5.10.1+

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Re^2: How many loops are there in Perl?
by davido (Cardinal) on Jan 31, 2012 at 18:51 UTC

    That's one for the obfu-toolkit. I'm surprised we haven't seen abuse of the regex engine and (?{...}) blocks.


    Dave

      as you wish :)

      DB<72> (" "x10) =~ m/ (?{print $x++})/g => (" ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ") 0123456789

      I'm surprised nobody tried s///e

      Cheers Rolf

      update:

      DB<20> $_=" "x10; s/ /print $x++/ge => 10 0123456789