Oh, it's far clearer with the nested loops example ^^. You could also do: 

for(@a1=`cat file`;$a[0]=shift @a1;@a1)
{
  for(@a2=@b;$a[1]=shift @a2;@a2) # could be "for(;$a[1]=shift @b;@b)"
+ if you don't care about emptying @b
  {
    for(@a3=grep /4/, @c;$a[2]=shift @a3;@a3)
    {
      <Statements>;
    }
  }
}

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but that's kind of ugly. Maybe you could use that with source filtering to have a lighter syntax ...


If you intend to do that sort of things often in your script you could use Perl Prototypes to add that kind of syntax to your program: 

sub with {for (@{$_[1]}){$_[0] = $_;$_[2]();}}
sub in { \@_  } 
sub run(&) { $_[0] }

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Then you could write : 
# parenthesis mandatory after in, bad idea after with and the commas c
+an't be ommited
with $a[0], in(qw/Bonjour Bonsoir/), 
run {
    with $a[1], in ("Paul", "Jack", "Lord Voldemort"),
    run {
        say "@a";
    }; # semi-colon mandatory
}; # same here

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Bonjour Paul
Bonjour Jack
Bonjour Lord Voldemort
Bonsoir Paul
Bonsoir Jack
Bonsoir Lord Voldemort

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But I did that because it was fun, and a bit of a challenge, but that's not very practical. You probably have to stick with my first answer.

In reply to Re^5: Using an array element as a loop iterator by Eily
in thread Using an array element as a loop iterator by gurpreetsingh13

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