ikegami has already posted an excellent reply, showing exactly how to do it with while. That is probably the best way to solve this particular problem, but I thought I would show you how to use map to filter out elements, for your future reference:

my @array = qw(foo bar baz qux);

my @newarray = map  { my $foo = $_;
                      $foo =~ s/./\u$&/; # useless example
                      $foo =~ /Ba/
                        ? $foo
                        : () }
               grep { /a/ }
               @array;

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The key here is to return an empty list when the condition fails. It's neat that we can do this with map, but it's usually better to use another grep:

my @array = qw(foo bar baz qux);

my @newarray = grep { /Ba/ }
               map  { my $foo = $_;
                      $foo =~ s/./\u$&/; # useless example
                      $foo }
               grep { /a/ }
               @array;

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HTH

In reply to Re^3: using grep on a directory to list files for a single date by revdiablo
in thread using grep on a directory to list files for a single date by markkneen

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