You get a similar solution using a very useful idiom if you replace
my @col = split /;/;
push @col, '' for @col .. 2;
print join ';', @col;
with
my $len = 3;
print join ';', (split(/;/), ('') x $len)[0 .. $len-1];
assuming that there are at most two semi-colons in the string. The focus here is the way to create the default trailing elements. This is quite useful when you create hashes, where it's imperative to not have any missing (or extra) elements. For instance:
my %foo =
map { (split /:/, $_, 2)[0, 1] } # Implicit "default" undef.
qw/
foo:bar
baz
zip:zap:zoom
/
;
use Data::Dumper;
print Dumper(\%foo);
__END__
$VAR1 = {
'baz' => undef,
'foo' => 'bar',
'zip' => 'zap:zoom'
};
A naive
my %foo = map { split /:/ } ...;
would've been disastrous.
lodin
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