Thanks. Works perfectly. Any chance I could prevail upon you to explain the use of map instead of passing the ref (\@list) to a()?

Is it because passing the list ref means that the enumeration of the elements is done out of my scope?

I can see where I was going wrong with the [], I was using them inside the ()'s instead of as a replacement for them. (back to perlref to try and understand why I should do this, but its always easier to understand working code than see whats wrong with non-working).

Regards.

In reply to Re: (jeffa) Re: Using list elements within lists contexts with the distributive properties of HTML shortcuts by Anonymous Monk
in thread Using list elements within lists contexts with the distributive properties of HTML shortcuts by Anonymous Monk

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