hmm, have a (hopefully (: ) quick question: how would i return the result of a for() loop within a subroutine? example:
sub scroll { my ($i) = @_; my @x = for (my $x=0;$x!=(length($i)+1);$x++){ substr($i,$x,1), "\n"; +}; return @x; }

now, this doesn't work, and spews forth quite a few warnings and errors (: but how would i go about returning the value?
it might be helpful to note that when i write it as:
sub scroll { my ($i) = @_ for (my $x=0;$x!=(length($i)+1);$x++){ print substr($i,$x,1), "\n"; } }
it works.

strfry()

In reply to returning data from a for() loop? by strfry()

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