Re: Flip-flop reset?

Interesting question. I'm not sure of the answer, but a kludgey workaround is to always make sure you start with something that will cause the flip-flop to reset:

  foreach ( "\n",@arr ) {
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Re^2: Flip-flop reset? by swkronenfeld (Hermit) on Aug 30, 2006 at 14:47 UTC
Nice idea sgifford. I think that what I may do is actually put the newline at the end `foreach (@arr, "\n") {` [download] They should work identically, as far as I can tell, but I can verify that the operator flops before leaving the subroutine now. This should work for both cases of input as I stated above. Thanks for everyone's input.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Flip-flop reset? by ysth (Canon) on Aug 30, 2006 at 20:55 UTC
That will only work if you are certain nothing in your for loop will bail out early, including something throwing an exception that's caught by a caller of your sub. Putting the dummy "\n" at the beginning of the loop is safer.	[reply]