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Perl Programming/Keywords/foreach

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The foreach keyword

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foreach is the keyword used to start a foreach loop.

Syntax

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 foreach my $variable (@list) ; 

Examples

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The code
use 5.10.0; %favorite = (joe => 'red', sam => 'blue', walter => 'black'); %list = %favorite; say "%favorite = "; foreach my $element (%favorite) {  say $element; } 
returns the following:
%favorite = walter black joe red sam blue 

See also

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