On 2011-01-11 11:44, Uri Guttman wrote:
these are equivilent:
my @out = grep /foo/, @in ;
my @out = map { /foo/ ? $_ : () } @in ;
Indeed equivalent. There is a difference though
in what comes out of map and grep:
perl -wle'
my @in = 1 .. 4;
print "@in";
++$_ for map { $_ % 2 ? $_ : () } @in; # copies
print "@in";
++$_ for grep { $_ % 2 } @in; # aliases
print "@in";
'
1 2 3 4
1 2 3 4
2 2 4 4
--
Ruud
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