Oh perl masters...why does this output 'tt0tt1', printing the second match twice (the tt from the word 'written' and the value of $c) rather than the 'h' from 'the', then the second match's value without the value of $c? I thought map would be smarter than that (or I'm just a dumb perl programmer, which is what I suspect).

open(FH,"</usr/bin/perldoc"); undef $/; $_=<FH>; map (($f[$c]=$1,print "$f[$c]", $c++), m/t(.*?)e/, m/wri(.*?)en/);

Thanks!
Kickstart


In reply to Regexp map weirdness by Kickstart

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