On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 03:36:59PM +0000, Simon Cozens wrote:
> It's semi-official name is the "hypermatch" operator. It's an array
> version of the ordinary =~ match operator. (Which used to be just
> for regular expressions, but is now for all sorts of matches.)
>
> @a = ("foo", "bar", "baz");
> @a ^=~ s/a/e/;
>
> turns @a into "foo", "ber", "bez".
>
> @a ^=~ /a/;
>
> returns (0,1,1). (I think.)
Aaah... Neat. But does it has other advantages
over map /a/, @a and map s/a/e/, @a than brievity?
Joy,
`/anick
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