That must have been an ENOCOFFEE error! Consider:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $i = "Nothing to see here, move along\n";

for $i (1 .. 3) {
    print "$i ";
}

print $i;

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Prints:

1 2 3 Nothing to see here, move along

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The for loop variable is aliased to the elements in the for list. Any global (to the loop) variable that happens to have the same name is unaffected by the loop and, in particular, does not end up with the last contents of the loop variable!

True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re^4: Any easy way to do this? by GrandFather
in thread Any easy way to do this? by jb60606

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