I want to use a scalar $string in a very C-like way
<plug>

You could always use Data::Pointer e.g 

use Data::Pointer qw( char_ptr );

for(my $p = char_ptr("a string of characters"); $p->deref; $p->incr) {
  print '[', $p->deref, ']';
}

__output__

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Ok, so it's not terribly C like, but the concept is there. Hopefully I'll be able to grok overload and XS one day and get a real pointer implementation, until then this shoddy implementation will have to do ;)

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HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: Forcing array context by broquaint
in thread Forcing array context by jens

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