PitifulProgrammer:

Yeah, map is one of my favorite bits. It's a simple way to build one list given another list. You need only give it a chunk of code to call for each element in the list, and whatever it returns is the content of the new list.

my @list = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5);

# makes list: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10
my @even_numbers = map { $_*2   } @list;

# makes list: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25
my @squares      = map { $_*$_  } @list;

# makes list: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5
my @repeated_list= map { $_, $_ } @list;

@list = qw(foo bar baz);

# makes list 'foo', 'bar', 'baz'
my @single_quoted = map { "'$_'" } @list;
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