ouch. if you'd used warnings you'd get a warning about the "if" statement. The problem is that your comma at the end of the if() statement tries to combine $_ in the same statement. It doesn't really make much sense, and I'm not sure what the perl interpreter makes of it either. Anyway, you want a semicolon there: 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $row = { title => 'Part1' };

my $parts = [ 'Part1', 'Part2','Part3' ];

my $newLoop = [ grep { $_->{SELECTED}++
                  if $_->{PARTNAME} eq $row->{title}; $_ }
                map +{ 'PARTNAME' => $_ }, @$parts ] ;

warn Dumper($newLoop);
__END__
$VAR1 = [
          {
            'SELECTED' => 1,
            'PARTNAME' => 'Part1'
          },
          {
            'PARTNAME' => 'Part2'
          },
          {
            'PARTNAME' => 'Part3'
          }
        ];

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update: Actually, your use of grep() is not at all idiomatic: you should probably not modify $_ in the grep block at all: it would be cleaner to use map() instead and return a modified copy.

update2: demonstration: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my $row = { title => 'Part1' };

my $parts = [ 'Part1', 'Part2','Part3' ];

my $newLoop = [ map
    +{  
        'PARTNAME' => $_,
        $row->{title} eq $_ ? ('SELECTED' => 1) : (),
    }, @$parts ] ;

warn Dumper($newLoop);

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In reply to Re: map and grep syntax question by Joost
in thread map and grep syntax question by geektron

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