in reply to Confessions of a back-alley map abuser

ugly2 can be slightly less ugly:

  map {...} "$sBegin";    # quote to duplicate string

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Re^2: Confessions of a back-alley map abuser
by hardburn (Abbot) on Dec 20, 2004 at 14:33 UTC

    "$sBegin" is not a true identity function. It forces string context on the variable, which may cause surprising problems in some code.

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