in reply to Re: Re: Re:^2 Golf: string complement
in thread Golf: string complement

Huh? grep() in scalar context returns a number, not a join()ed list of elements that passed through. And print() doesn't "force scalar context" -- in fact, it invokes list context, which is the only reason why print invert($string) works.
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