Just add one thing, with use strict and warnings, Perl does give error: (I added my in front of $picture, so that the error at line 15 is isolated)

use strict; use warnings; my $match = '1995_Olga_goes_to_Egypt'; my @pictures = qw{1995/1995_Olga_first_time_in_Cyprus/06330004.JPG 1995/1995_Olga_goes_to_Egypt/QD0017004.JPG}; foreach my $picture (sort @pictures) { print "Debug: $picture\n"; if ($picture =~ m/$match/) { print "Matched, $picture\n"; last; } } print "Result: $picture\n";

This gives:

Global symbol "$picture" requires explicit package name at math1.pl li +ne 15. Execution of math1.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

In reply to Re^2: Last undefines a for loop's itererator? by pg
in thread Last undefines a for loop's itererator? by BUU

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