print "Foo...\n" if $verbose; #### my @array = ( "foo", "bar", "baz" ); my $i; my $array_size = scalar( @array ); for( $i = 0; $i < $array_size; $i++ ) { ...do something with $array[$i]...including assigning to it } #### my @array = ( "foo", "bar", "baz" ); foreach my $value ( @array ) { ...do something with $value...including assigning to it } #### #!/usr/bin/perl -w ...your script here... #### use strict;