map shift(@ARGV), qw(two times)
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Well, no dont do that.

:-)

A very good hint is that you are using map in void context. Thats dumb. (no offense to obfuscators at large ;-). Map is _meant_ to return a set of values, its not meant to be used as a for loop. (In fact my personal belief is that map() and grep() are sorely sorely misnamed. They should be called apply() and filter(), but thats another flame-war iykwim)

I would say that your second choice is preferred, or possibly

shift @argv for (1,2);
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But map in void context? No thanks.

Oh and of course, using Getopt would be a good idea too. (jeffa++)

Yves / DeMerphq
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