Date: 13 Jul 2001 04:12:08 -0500
From: logan@cs.utexas.edu (Logan Shaw)
Subject: Re: List files in a directory
Message-Id: <9ime18$km8$1@charity.cs.utexas.edu>

In article <9imd8n$fav$1@kermit.esat.net>, Andrew <andrew@mvt.ie> wrote:
>for (0..$#files)
>{
>    printf "$files[$_]\n";
>}

That's not really very much in the Perl idiom.  It's much more natural
to just do this:

	foreach (@files)
	{
		print "$_\n";
	}

That is precisely what "foreach" is for, after all.

Personally, I like this better, though:

	print map ("$_\n", @files);

  - Logan
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