for $i ( 1 .. $foo ) {
    last if bar($i);
  }
  print $i;

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Is there any good idiom that uses foreach, but yet still lets me access the variables afterwards? (And no, the chunk is far too small for a subroutine.) 
use warnings;
use strict;
my $i = sub {
  for my $i (1..5)  {
    return($i) if ($i == 4);
  }
}->();
print $i;

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If it doesn't work under warnings and strict, there is probably a good reason for that. IMO, if you want to access the loop variable outside the loop, you should declare a separate variable and set it explicitly before you drop out of the loop.

If what you really want is a loop that behaves like a subroutine, why not just write it as such?

In reply to Re^2: no chunk is too small by ewilhelm
in thread Last undefines a for loop's itererator? by BUU

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