Between the time I logged off yesterday and logged back in today, the discussion has extended considerably and you appear to have your answer.

In general, I tend to use a lexical variable in for loops and the block form of map, grep and similar constructs.

for my $list_element (@list) {
    # use $list_element here
}

map { ... } @list;
grep { ... } @list;
sort { ... } @list;

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(for and foreach are synonymous, in case you didn't know)

This generally avoids any confusion over what $_ refers to.

Perl 5.10 introduced a new lexically scoped $_ (that's in addition to the current globally scoped $_) so there's even more chance of confusion.

Hoping your head isn't hurting too much and the wall doesn't need fixing. :-)

-- Ken

In reply to Re^3: Braino - why is this not working? by kcott
in thread Braino - why is this not working? by perl-diddler

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