For loop?

[jae21]

I was wondering how to do an enumerated for loop? I wanted to go through the elements of an array by number but only know of the foreach loop.

 

[tsdragon]

Actually, for and foreach are synonyms. Use can use either word. The difference is in the rest of the statement. You can do (assuming an array named @Values):

for my $val (@Values) {print "$val\n";}
# or #
for ( my $x=0; x<=$#Values; x++ ) {print &quot;$Values[$x]\n&quot;;}
# or even #
for my $x (0..$#Values) {print &quot;$Values[$x]\n&quot;;}

Hope that helps.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[jae21]

Thanks tracey, that helped a lot.

I've been able to implement an incrementing for loop even though i don't think i really need to But for some reason I get an error when running this bit of code.

for my $i (0..$#records)
{
chomp($records[$i]);
($rectitle, $reckeywords, $recurl) = split(/\|/, $records[$i]);
@tempurl = split(/\#/, $recurl);
if $url[0] eq $tempurl[0]
{
if $url[1] lt $tempurl[1]
{
$tempurl[1]++;
}
if $url[1] eq $tempurl[1]
{
$tempurl[1]++;
print OUTDB "$videotitle \| $videokeywords \|$videourl\n";
}
$recurl = join("#", @tempurl);
}
print OUTDB "$rectitle \| $reckeywords \|$recurl\n";
}

 

[tsdragon]

I believe that you are required to have parens around your conditions on your if statements, like this:

if ($url[0] eq $tempurl[0])

That's the only thing I can see might be wrong.

Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[jae21]

tracy, thanks so much for helping out a clueless newbie. i think i'm pretty much done the little project that i was working on so i won't bother you any more

 

[tsdragon]

You're very welcome for the help. It's no bother at all! That's what we're here for. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.