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From: markb@agora.uucp (Mark Biggar)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Uniq, anyone?
Message-ID: <1990Oct17.022227.1525@agora.uucp>
Date: 17 Oct 90 02:22:27 GMT
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In article <JGREELY.90Oct15112321@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu> J Greely <jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>(Side note: you should declare $_ local in your solution, to avoid
>stomping on its current value)

But a foreach loop iterator variable is automatically local to the loop
so no local() is needed.

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Mark Biggar