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variable declaration and countdown

jazzo
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Aug 25, 2012, 10:41 AM

Post #1 of 4 (1454 views)

variable declaration and countdown	Can't Post

Hi peeps, I came across this simple script:

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#!/usr/bin/perl 
# countdown.plx 
use warnings; 
use strict; 
my @count = (1..5); 
for (reverse(@count)) { 
print "$_...\n"; 
sleep 1; 
} 
print "BLAST OFF!\n";

and I was wondering, shouldn't the variable

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reverse

be declare as

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my reverse

rather than using it without declaring it?
The the other thing. to print off the numbers we say:

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print "$_...\n";

why do we use "$_"?
can we not use the array something like

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print "$count[reverse]\n";

thanks

(This post was edited by jazzo on Aug 25, 2012, 10:48 AM)

FishMonger
Veteran / Moderator

Aug 25, 2012, 11:03 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1451 views)

Re: [jazzo] variable declaration and countdown [In reply to]	Can't Post

reverse is not a variable. It's one of perl's built-in functions.

http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/reverse.html

Laurent_R
Veteran / Moderator

Aug 25, 2012, 11:05 AM

Post #3 of 4 (1450 views)

Re: [jazzo] variable declaration and countdown [In reply to]	Can't Post

Hi,

reverse is not a variable, but a function that reverse the order of the @count array (makes it 5 4 3 2 1).

In the for loop, the default variable $_ is assigned successively to the reversed values of @count.

You could write this more explicitly:

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foreach my $number (reverse @count) { 
    print "$number...\n"; 
     sleep 1; 
} 
print "BOOOOM\n";

jazzo
Novice

Aug 25, 2012, 11:23 AM

Post #4 of 4 (1446 views)

Re: [Laurent_R] variable declaration and countdown [In reply to]	Can't Post

of course it is a function, what a donkey I am, sorry!

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