in reply to Re: Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known
in thread Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known

As of Perl 5.12:

while (my ($i, $element) = each @array) { do_something( $element ) unless $i % 3; }

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Re^3: Perlplexation - foreach shoulda Known
by Riales (Hermit) on Apr 13, 2012 at 20:57 UTC

    Wow, cool! Thanks for pointing this out. I was always curious why something like this didn't exist--turns out it did all along!

      turns out it did all along!

      um... Only if the world began with Perl 5.12.

        Well, I only started with Perl recently, so from my perspective, it's always been there. :P