On Aug 24, 2:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Sopher) wrote:
> Aside from the syntax, is there a difference in the way 'map' and
> 'foreach' process?
foreach is just a loop. map returns values. Specifically, it returns
the value of the BLOCK/EXPR for each iteration of the loop.
my @doubles = map { $_ * 2 } @nums;
is exactly equivalent to:
my @doubles;
foreach (@nums) {
push @doubles, $_ * 2;
}
Paul Lalli
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