SPUG: Grep syntax

John W. Krahn krahnj at telus.net
Fri Jun 15 10:09:55 PDT 2007


Bill Campbell wrote:
> 
> The author of the perl (Net::CIDR from CPAN) seems to like using grep as a
> method of processing arrays while doing no regular expression checking.  He
> also does things like this to create an array, @bcopy, the same size as @b,
> populated with 255.  This also takes advantage of perl's ``magic'' where
> looping through an array allows one to modify elements of the array by
> manipulating $_;
> 
> my @bcopy = @b;
> grep { $_ = 255 } @bcopy;

Or you could do that like this:

$_ = 255 for my @bcopy = @b;



John
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