Is using map here the most efficient way to do this (for much larger lists)?

What kind of problem are you having? Speed? memory? something else?

If you want to reduce your memory footprint, you could use a counting loop and push. 

for my $i (0..$#a) {
   my $s = $a[$i];
   $s =~ s/x//g;
   push @b, $s if $s;
}

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As for the speed difference between this and your solution, only a benchmark will tell. Should be very similar.

In reply to Re: Basic list manipulation, and a bit of map() confusion... by ikegami
in thread Basic list manipulation, and a bit of map() confusion... by cmv

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