SPUG: Where is grep's return value?

[Asim Jalis]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:27:08PM -0700, Jeremy Mates wrote:
> * Orr, Chuck  (NOC) <chuck.orr at attws.com> [2002-09-10T16:08-0700]:
> > if (grep("$KEY",EXISTING)){
> 
> perl -le '@a=qw(a b c); if (@r = grep { $_ eq "b" } @a) { print "@r" }'

The "if" and "@r" temporary variable can be removed:

perl -le '@a=qw(a b c); print grep { $_ eq "b" } @a'


Asim

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