Re: Help needed with MAP expression

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, bari wrote: > Hi there, > Can any one help me what this MAP function does... > > map(/^[\.\d]+$/ ? td({-align=>'right'}, $_) : td($_), @$_) $_ contains an array ref. It loops through each entry in the array ref. If the entry is a number (by the above regexp's naive view of n

[OT] RE: Help needed with MAP expression

2000-12-07 Thread Ed Park
The point of this function is to right-align numbers in table-data cells and keep everything else left-aligned. Note that this is what Excel does by default (if you type in a number in Excel, it aligns to the right; if you type in a string, it aligns to the left). Technically, it should be use in

RE: Help needed with MAP expression

2000-12-07 Thread jbodnar
It takes a reference to an array, and checks to see if each element of the arry only contains one or more "."s or digits, if it does it calls the td() function with parameters, returning the result, if not, it returns the element. I think. On 07-Dec-2000 bari wrote: > Hi there, > Can any one hel