This, and BrowserUk's suggestion are both good ones. BrowserUk's I wasn't even aware of, and this one I had somewhat forgot about. However, I do like the consistency of having one method of doing it that works both standalone and in map. Although I usually argue that adding a variable at the end of a map block isn't that bad, I'm going to be a devil's advocate and argue against it here.

my @output = map { (my $i = $_) =~ s/foo/bar/; $i } @input;

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Seems less readable to me than

my @output = map { $_ \~ s/foo/bar/ } @input;

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And I like the use of 'map' instead of 'filter' (especially since I think of grep when I think of filter).

I guess it looks like personal preference here, so maybe I'll just perfect this one and keep it for myself (since I don't use $1 and $2 very often from what I've noticed, I wouldn't have to fix them just for myself).

    -Bryan

In reply to Re^2: A Functional Substitute by mrborisguy
in thread A Functional Substitute by mrborisguy

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