ikegami...List::MoreUtils's apply did exactly what I needed for the array. Thank you! Now all I need to figure out is why my grep is breaking.

I isolated the code that I am working on, but grep is grepping everything. I've never had this problem with grep before.

my @filesize_names = qw(bit nibble byte kilobyte megabyte gigabyte ter
+abyte petabyte exabyte zettabyte yottabyte);

  my $word = 'fubar';
     $word =~ s/s$//;

  my @short_sizes = apply {$_ =~ s/^(\w)\w{1,}$/$1b/} @filesize_names;

  print Dumper(\@filesize_names);
  print Dumper(\@short_sizes);

  if (grep(lc $word,@short_sizes)) { # even 'fubar' greps
    print "$word grepped!";
    $word = $filesize_names[firstidx { $_ eq lc $word } @short_sizes];
  }

  print $word;

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Lady Aleena

In reply to Re^2: Global array afftected by map inside of a subroutine by Lady_Aleena
in thread Global array afftected by map inside of a subroutine by Lady_Aleena

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