Wilson, Douglas on Mon, 2 Jun 2003 12:37:18 -0400


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RE: scalar / list context weirdness



On Monday, June 02, 2003 9:21 AM, Jeff Abrahamson [SMTP:jeff@purple.com]
wrote:
>     @indices = map { $_ =~ s/.html$// } @indices;

In scalar context, s/// returns the number of substitutions, operates
directly
on the variable like chomp and does not return a copy of it like some
operators and functions.

So you just want:
s/\.html$// for @indices;

-Doug
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