in reply to map and regexp. An newbie question

You might be interested in learning about List::MoreUtils's apply and Algorithm::Loops's Filter.

my @a = apply { s/a/X/g } qw( arriba abajo ); # XrribX XbXjo

They're not particularly useful in addressing your specific example, though.

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Re^2: map and regexp. An newbie question
by anneli (Pilgrim) on Oct 19, 2011 at 08:26 UTC

    Wow; I started digging into L::MU to find out what trickery was required to let the anonymous subroutine sit there unadorned, then found myself reading perlsub for half an hour! Thanks!

Re^2: map and regexp. An newbie question
by nando (Acolyte) on Oct 19, 2011 at 15:44 UTC

    Ikegami Thanks!, I will put it in the "todo's" stack.