Simpler Section Numbers

You simplified it a lot by dropping $maxdigs.

It's a fair cop, but society's to blame.

I appreciate your final no-hash sprintf approach, but modifying temp values in a grep gives me the screaming heebie-jeebies, you know what I mean? I'd much rather use map for that sort of thing. But I can't argue with the fact that it works.... And my Rule #0 is, ``Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't.''

-- Chip Salzenberg, Free-Floating Agent of Chaos

PS: Thanks for the welcome. This is a neat site.

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RE: Simpler Section Numbers by tye (Sage) on Jul 28, 2000 at 23:32 UTC
Actually I wrote it as `map` first and, of course, it didn't work because `s//` doesn't return the modified string. Breaking the unwritten rule of `grep` seemed slicker than: `map {s/.../.../ge; $_}` [download] which still hides side-effects inside `map` or: `map {(my $x= $_)=~s/.../.../ge; $x}` [download] which just, well, isn't slick. :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]