There's actually a general answer to this question, and that answer is yes. If you have two functions, func1 and func2 (forgive my startlingly clever and original naming convention) and func2 returns a list, and func1 operates on a list, Perl will work from right to left, and func1 will operate on the list you get from func2. Mostly. It'll violate your intuitive expectations a lot, though: 
my @stuff=qw(foo bar baz);
print join "\n",@stuff,"\n";
print "test!\n";
------------
foo
bar
baz

test!

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because it joined (@stuff,"\n") (a perfectly legal list) using "\n" instead of joining @stuff and then putting one last \n on the end.

In reply to Re: pipe one function output to another by ssandv
in thread pipe one function output to another by bob_dobalina

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