Re: returning scalar context from map or grep

Do you mean something like:

my @ary=qw/dog cat gnat/;
my $first=(grep {/at$/} @ary)[0];
print $first;
__END__
cat
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Re: Re: returning scalar context from map or grep by !unlike (Beadle) on Apr 28, 2003 at 13:14 UTC
AAAARRRRGGGG!!!!! I tried every method I knew apart from that one! Thanks Robartes, it worked a treat! ;) !unlike I write my Perl code like how I like my sex: fast and dirty. ;)	[reply]