in reply to Re^2: Using Subroutine Returns
in thread Using Subroutine Returns
Or force a scalar context on the interpolated subroutine calls:
sub foo { wantarray() ? 10 : 1; } print 'Scalar context: '; print ''. foo(); print ', '; print foo() . "\n"; print 'List context: '; print "@{[foo()]}, "; print "${\foo()}\n"; print 'Scalar context: '; print "@{[scalar(foo())]}, "; print "${\scalar(foo())}\n"; __END__ Produces: Scalar context: 1, 1 List context: 10, 10 Scalar context: 1, 1
But, while this is possible, I can't imagine it being preferable to concatenation for producing a scalar context.
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