in reply to sorting text arrays and ignoring case

A few other ways of writing out the contents of the array:

print "@items\n";
print join ('\n', @items), "\n";
print "$_\n" for @items;

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Re^2: sorting text arrays and ignoring case
by johngg (Canon) on Mar 10, 2006 at 09:20 UTC
    Or how about

    {
    local $" = "\n";
    print "@items\n";
}

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    to get one item per line?

    Cheers,

    JohnGG

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      Nope, all in a line with spaces between items. But a trick worth knowing.

      Update: the node I replied to seems to have completely chenged its contents. My reply is no longer relevant.

      DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel
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        Strange. Works on my system in many different scripts. Oh well! I use a similar technique when looking for members of a list as alternation in regular expressions.

        {
    local $" = "|";
    $rxMatch = qr{blahblah(@members)morestuff};
}

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        Cheers

        Johngg

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