Re: iterating through scalar

See substr to access single characters.

But the "usual" way is

for my $c (split //, $string) {
   print $c;
}
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Alternatively:

 
while ( $string =~ m/(.)/g ){
    print $1;
}
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made code clearer

Cheers Rolf

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Re^2: iterating through scalar by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Feb 06, 2015 at 19:46 UTC
Also: `c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le "my $string = 'foobar'; ;; for my $offset (0 .. length($string) - 1) { printf qq{'%s' }, substr $string, $offset, 1; } " 'f' 'o' 'o' 'b' 'a' 'r'` [download] Give a man a fish: `<%-(-(-(-<`	[reply] [d/l] [select]