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Re^5: Perl's feature to determine, in current point of loop, that this is the last one?

by talexb (Chancellor)
on Jan 25, 2022 at 21:24 UTC ( [id://11140865]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: Perl's feature to determine, in current point of loop, that this is the last one?
in thread Perl's feature to determine, in current point of loop, that this is the last one?

Yeah, that's doable. I can also think of doing it without having everything inside the loop ..

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # 2022-0125: Handle First and List iems differently that everything # in between .. { my @keys = qw/q w e r t y u i o p/; print "First is $keys[0] ..\n"; foreach my $k ( @keys[1..(scalar @keys -2)] ) { print "In the middle: $k\n"; } print "Finally, we have $keys[-1].\n"; }
This produces the output
First is q .. In the middle: w In the middle: e In the middle: r In the middle: t In the middle: y In the middle: u In the middle: i In the middle: o Finally, we have p.
But I like your solution of using an Iterator -- then it has the job of handling the 'first' and 'last' issues.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

Thanks PJ. We owe you so much. Groklaw -- RIP -- 2003 to 2013.

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Re^6: Perl's feature to determine, in current point of loop, that this is the last one?
by afoken (Chancellor) on Jan 26, 2022 at 15:49 UTC

    Edge case behaviour might need some changes:

    #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # 2022-0125: Handle First and List iems differently that everything # in between .. { # my @keys = qw/q w e r t y u i o p/; my @keys = qw/q/; print "First is $keys[0] ..\n"; foreach my $k ( @keys[1..(scalar @keys -2)] ) { print "In the middle: $k\n"; } print "Finally, we have $keys[-1].\n"; }
    B:\>perl 11140865-single.pl First is q .. Finally, we have q. B:\>

    Alexander

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