Also, most Perl programmers shy away from the "C-style" for loop. This is the C style: 

for( $i=0; $i<20 ; $i++){
  print "\$i = $i\n";
}

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Whereas in idiomatic Perl, you'll typicall see things like the following:

for ( 0 .. 19 ) {
    print "$_\n";
}

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The ".." is referred to as the range operator. It's faster than the C-style for loop and, once you get used to it, it's easier to read. See the "Range Operator" section in perlop.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: Newbie realisation about by Ovid
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