[ABE.pm] mapping with an enclosure

[Ted Fiedler]

Couldnt you do something like

for (@data)
{
    $_ =~ s/\s+/g;
}

or

my @newdata;

for (@data)
{
    s/\s+/g;
    push @newdata, $_;
}

I haven't tested, but both should work.

How was the tech meeting on Wednesday? $Work is usurping all my time :(

Ted
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Faber J. Fedor <faber at linuxnj.com> wrote:

>
> I'm reading in a CSV file line by line.  I need to trim leading and
> trailing whitespace out of each comma-delimited field. So I figured I'd
> use map an enclosure like so:
>
>    my @data = split(/,/, $_);
>
>    map  {     $_ =>  s/^\s+//;
>               $_ =>  s/\s+$//;
>          } @data;
>
>    ($sku,$warehouse,$quantity,$row,$product_type,$stack_location,$price)
>    = @data ;
>
>
> Two things I don't understand:
>
> 1) why is map editing my array in place?  It's supposed to return an
> array.  The array it does return has extra empty data elements in
> between each original element.
>
> 2.  Why do I get a "Useless use of a variable in void context at
> at_test.pl line 19." (line 19 being the line map is on)?
>
> Is there a better way of stripping the data?
>
>
>
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>
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>
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