OK. Thanks for the advice on for (;;) loops vs foreach loops. That's just the kind of obvious thing that I don't know.

Either idiom works for me. I try to program for a hypothetical programmer who'll have to support my stuff after I'm gone...and who knows less than me - a scary proposition in anyone's book. Anyway, if there's an inelegant but clear way of doing something and an elegant but obscure way of doing something, I'll take the clear/inelegant one - assuming there's no significant performance hit 'cause yes, I do benchmark my code. I'm translating someone else's undocumented, c-shell spaghetti code into Perl and I don't want to do unto others as was done unto me.

Jack

Cogito cogito, ergo cogito sum
(I think I think, therefore I think I am)

In reply to Re^4: Extracting columns from a two dimensional array by jcoxen
in thread Extracting columns from a two dimensional array by Anonymous Monk

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