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Looping Directives: The C-style for Loop

Let's learn about the C-style for loop in Perl.

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Syntax of C-style for loop

The C-style for loop requires us to manage the conditions of iteration:

Perl
for (my $i = 0; $i <= 10; $i += 2) {
    say "$i * $i = ", $i * $i;
}

We must explicitly assign to an iteration variable in the looping construct, since this ...