Re: How to add an exceptio for"for loop"

perl -e 'my @a=qw|f1 fw . f3 f4|; for (grep {$_ ne "."} @a) {print qq|
+$_\n|}'
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Re^2: How to add an exceptio for"for loop" by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2011 at 04:55 UTC
grep will not work because other array elements also have a "." in them.I dont want a loop on the array element which is exactly "."	[reply]
Re^3: How to add an exceptio for"for loop" by ELISHEVA (Prior) on Mar 21, 2011 at 05:05 UTC
I think you may be confusing the command line grep with Perl's grep command. `my @selected = grep { $_ ne "." } @some_array` selects elements based on whether the content of `{....}` returns true or false. As `{ $_ ne "."}` is only true on an exact non-match with `"."`, it will exclude only ".". ".foobar", "foo.bar", etc. will pass the test, i.e. `{ $_ ne "."}` will be true, and therefore will be in `@selected`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: How to add an exceptio for"for loop" by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2011 at 05:25 UTC
Do you spot anything wrong in the below line,for some reason the for loop is executed even for the element "." in @folders `foreach my $folder (grep {$_ ne "."}@folders) { }` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How to add an exceptio for"for loop" by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Mar 21, 2011 at 11:05 UTC