Why doesn't my Perl code work when I put it in a foreach loop?

Question

This code outputs the scalars in the row array properly:

  $line = "This is my favorite test";
  @row = split(/ /, $line);

  print $row[0];
  print $row[1];

The same code inside a foreach loop doesn't print any scalar values:

  foreach $line (@lines){
      @row = split(/ /, $line);
      print $row[0];
      print $row[1];
  }

What could cause this to happen?

I am new to Perl coming from python. I need to learn Perl for my new position.

Answer 1

Appearently I needed to do:

foreach $line (@lines){
   @row = split(/\s+/, $line);
   print $row[0];
   print $row[1];
}

Answer 2

As already mentioned in Jefromi's comments, whatever the problem is, it exists outside of the code you posted. This works entirely fine:

$lines[0] = "This is my favorite test";

foreach $line (@lines) {
    @row = split(/ /, $line);
    print $row[0];
    print $row[1];
}

The output is Thisis

Answer 3

When I run into these sorts of problems where I wonder why something in a block is not happening, I add some debugging code to ensure I actually enter the block:

 print "\@lines has " . @lines . " elements to process\n";
 foreach my $line ( @lines )
      {
      print "Processing [$line]\n";
      ...;
      }

You can also do this in your favorite debugger by setting breakpoints and inspecting variables, but that's a bit too much work for me. :)

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