Re: for loop is skipped for not so obvious reason (false)

so $lb and $la are printed just before the for loop, but not within.

Seeing how $la and $lb variables, the reason the loop is skipped is because $i <= $lb evaluates to false

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Re^2: for loop is skipped for not so obvious reason (false) by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2013 at 11:42 UTC
`$ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $ +i; } " $ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $ +i; } " 0 0 $ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $ +i; } " 1 0 $ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $ +i; } " 0 1 0` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: for loop is skipped for not so obvious reason (false)
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 06, 2013 at 11:42 UTC

$ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $
+i; } "

$ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $
+i; } "  0 0

$ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $
+i; } "  1 0

$ perl -E " my($la,$lb)=@ARGV; for ( my$i= $la; $i < $lb; $i++){ say $
+i; } "  0 1
0
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