Whilst I have always proven to be too lazy to create an account on PerlMonks, I have been a long time lurker.
Yet again a post from ikegami has helped me understand concepts I previously hadn't encountered or fully grasped the subtleties of.
I had seen the map function but had not grasped how I could utilise it and I have also just been educated regarding ternary operators.
Thank you ikegami for your helpful and educational post, the code works perfectly.

If I may impose on your time a little more, are there alternative algorithms that may achieve the desired end result? Is this the method you would use to achieve the outlined result or is there a better way?
I know better is rather subjective so to define better my interest lies in for improvements in regards to good programming practices, efficiency of code and also clarity of code.

In reply to Re^2: Printing to stdout an array of strings and scalar references by Anonymous Monk
in thread Printing to stdout an array of strings and scalar references by Anonymous Monk

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