Re^2: Remembering values from multiple condition 'if'

Argh, I'm out of votes. Consider yourself ++ed. Just a question though, why don't you just do like so? my @files = grep -e, qw(foo foobar bar); ____________
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Re: Re^2: Remembering values from multiple condition 'if' by TheHobbit (Pilgrim) on Jul 02, 2002 at 19:53 UTC
Hi, Well, with that grep, @files will end up containing only ones, and you'll not even be able to sort out exactly 'which' files where there... Cheers Leo TheHobbit	[reply]
Re^4: Remembering values from multiple condition 'if' by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 02, 2002 at 19:58 UTC
Actually, no - that would happen if I were using `map`. `grep` doesn't return the value of the expression, it returns the original element if the expression evaluates to true. Observe: `$ touch a b e ; perl -le'@f=grep -e, qw(a b c d e f); print "@f"' a b e` [download] `____________` Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]