SPUG: Where is grep's return value?

William Julien moonbeam at catmanor.com
Tue Sep 10 19:10:16 CDT 2002


Or even better...

-->perl -le '@a=qw(vi is my shepherd I shall not font it); print join " ", grep /i/, @a;'
vi is it

William Julien
(vi bill)

>
>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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