Hi
I'm having headaches with this.

What I want to do is to create some loop mechanism that allows me to iterate through an @array.
The starting position of the loop is calculated from $offset_value.

$offset_value will be between 0 and (scalar @array) -1

e.g 

@array = (qw/ Fred Mark Joe Mary Paul /);
$offset_value = 0

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Then I would want get the following values returned 
Fred
Mark
Joe
Mary
Paul

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incrementing $offset then I want to get 
Paul
Fred
Mark
Joe
Mary

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Essentially the loop moves the last element to become the first.

What I have tried is the reverse of what I want :(
my @array=(qw/ Fred Mark Joe Mary Paul /);
my $offset=0;
my $loop=0;
while ($loop < 10){ # loop is just to increment the offset value

# main loop below
 for (my $i=0;$i<scalar @array;$i++){
   my $r = $i + $offset;
   if ($r > scalar @array-1){
     $r = $r - (scalar @array);
   }
   print @array[$r];
 }

 $offset++;
 $offset=($offset>(scalar @array -1)?0:$offset;
 $loop++;
}

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Any Clues/hints/help much appreciated.
Regards
Mark K.

update (broquaint): tidied up formatting

In reply to looping backwards by Anonymous Monk

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