I know that Perl has a miriad of shortcuts, and this is one of the reasons that I really like the language.

However, something that I think would be pretty cool, is if it was possible to write a conditional statement within a loop in a one-liner.

I haven't checked out the source code of perl, so I don't know how complex it would be to add something like this to the language (or how much slower a script would run).

#how it currently works
for (@arr) {
  print "$_\n" if /pattern/;
}

#what I'm suggesting
print "$_\n" if /pattern/ for @arr;

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Are there technical difficulties implementing something of this kind?

Are there reasons that doing something like this would be bad programming?

Thanks,
Dave.

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In reply to One-liners: Conditionals in Loops by David Caughell

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