Question: Both of these methods seem to be the same. The map method is, of course, shorter...Why doesn't it work is my question.


here is my map strategy: 
$MAIL_ROOT = '/var/mail';

my @users = (map  s/$MAIL_ROOT// , `find $MAIL_ROOT -type d -maxdepth 
+1`);

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and here is the foreach that does what I want, I want to do a map instead of this foreach. 

my @users = `find $MAIL_ROOT -type d -maxdepth 1`;
foreach (@users) {
    chomp;


    s/$MAIL_ROOT//;
    print $_ . "\n" unless $_ eq '';


}

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is there some reason map is not working correctly?

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What it might be perhaps...

$_ is undefined because its finding $_ for @users on that same line??? Is this my problem? In other words, we make sure to return $_ and we're in good shape.


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Ah, I see, I was assigning the value to s/// and mapping incorrectly: correct way: 
chomp( my @users = map { s/$MAIL_ROOT//; $_ } `find $MAIL_ROOT -type d
+ -maxdepth 1` );

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from jwkrahn is prob the least effort for a fix and the one i went with :)

In reply to using map to replace text without using a foreach.... by dark314

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