in reply to Assigning variables via looping

Symbolic references aside, I suggest using: And sometimes using:

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Re^2: Assigning variables via looping
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jun 02, 2009 at 20:59 UTC
    for doesn't clobber $_ 
    $ perl -le'$_="abc"; print for "def";  print'
def
abc

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