Hello.

So the iterator in a foreach loop is localised; if the variable is previously declared with my "that one instead of the global one is used, but it's still localized to the loop" (according to the Camel book).

So I have the following code: 
my $value = "four";
my @array = ( "one", "two", "three" );

foreach $value (@array) 
{
    print "foreach value: $value\t";
    function();
}

sub function
{
    print "function value: $value\n";
}

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Why is $value = "four" when my subroutine is called? If it's localised by the foreach loop, shouldn't it get set to the value it is inside the foreach loop? (As is what happens if it's my declaration)

It seems that if both a global and local version of $value exists, then the global one is chosen.

What's happening?

In reply to foreach localizing variables by AndyJ

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