in reply to array input "@array = lc(<>)"

lc provides scalar context to its argument. 
my @array = map {lc} <>;

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Re^2: array input "@array = lc(<>)"
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 12, 2010 at 15:20 UTC

    And if the OPer wants to get rid of the newlines at the ends of the strings: 

    >perl -wMstrict -le
"my @array = map { chomp; lc } <>;
 use Data::Dumper;
 print Dumper \@array;
"
FOO
BAR
^Z
$VAR1 = [
          'foo',
          'bar'
        ];

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      yeah I just did: 

      chomp(my @input = map {lc} <>);

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