I just had to add a bit more to this. The alternate form of the code that would have helped jeffa the most was: print join("\n", map { split; $_ =~ s/-//g;} @words); With the split and substitution reversed, you would have discovered quite quick that s/// and tr/// always return counts, even in the list context that map provides. I bet you have seen foreach (/PATTERN/) {} and figured that s/// and tr/// work like m// does in that idiom. Read a bit of `perldoc perlop` and you will find that in the section "Regexp Quote-Like Operators" it explains m// behavior in a list (returns the list of matches) but makes no such claims about the other two. This has bit me before. =) BTW, with your first example and with the others that were provided, you should also do a: print join("\n", @words); And note the side effects of your code on your original data.

In reply to RE: Fun with learning maps by Anonymous Monk
in thread Fun with learning maps by jeffa

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