Hi All,
  I hardly ever use map, I'm forcing myself to use it when dealing with whole arrays (when I only want to looking for something in an array I'll use foreach and last). Already I'm struggling to figure out how to do something I'm sure is quite simple.

I have a file with a list of keys and values separated by =. Such as:- 
key1 = value1
key2 = value2

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I want to read this into a hash. How do I do it with map?

One of my feeble attempts:- 
open( INF, 'file' );
    %hash = map { my ( $a, $b) = split( / = /, chomp($_) ); $a => $b }
+ <INF>;;
close( INF );

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I'm sure with a little help, and if I keep bashing my head against the wall using map for these kinds of situations will finally sink in.

Lyle

In reply to Probably an easy map question by cosmicperl

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