in reply to How do I pass a block like map/grep/sort/etc?

Is there anyway to make your own function that can take a block of code

In short, yes. perldoc perlsub, read about prototypes.

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Re: Re: How do I pass a block like map/grep/sort/etc?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 06, 2004 at 02:26 UTC
    Sweet, I didn't know about '&', I couldn't find it when I was looking for prototypes earlier. How do these functions get away with being unprototyped though (i.e. print prototype "grep"; prints nothing).
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      Quoth perldoc -f prototype:

      If the builtin is not overridable (such as "qw//") or its arguments cannot be expressed by a prototype (such as "system") returns "undef" because the builtin does not really behave like a Perl function.
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      err I mean "CORE::grep".
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