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Tell me how it would "of course" lose data? It does work.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: changing a string to a numeric variable
by kappa (Chaplain) on Mar 19, 2004 at 12:54 UTC 
    web07:~[0]% perl
$_ = 'word 0 word';
my @a = grep {s/(?<=\d),(?=\d)//g || $_} split;
print join ':', @a, "\n";
^D
word:word:
web07:~[0]%

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    That '0' vanished because the grep-condition (s/...//g || $_) is false and grep is a filter.
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