I was working on some obfuscated code, and came across a problem. Well, first what I was trying to do was to do something 12 times (i.e. for(1 .. 12)). I tried this: 
for(++$....$.++.$.)
{print "$_\n"}

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And to my surprise it printed 2 through 12. Before I move on, I'll explain what I think should happen. To do this, I'll clean up the formatting a bit: 
for(++$. .. $.++ . $.) #note before I had used ... instead of ..

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Now, let's examine those values: 
++$.      = 1 
$.++ . $. = 12 #the concatenation of 1 and 2.

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So, I tried to take it apart and see which individual element was causing the problem, and eventually I came up with this: 
for(++$....$..$.) #note took out the second ++

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Now it prints 1 through 11, exactly what I expect. What I think is happening is that the second ++ is effecting the value of $. somehow, before it's supposed to.

This is really baffaling me, so any help is appreciated,
thanks

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

In reply to For loop problem by srawls

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