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Hi
I needed to run regular exression(RE) for all the elements of an array
so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
Following line
@Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/,$_} @getlistF;
gave me all the existing elements plus what is extracted by RE

but
following line
@Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/} @getlistF;
gave me just what RE returned,

Definetly it means that I do not understand MAP correctly,
can somebody please explain what is the difference between two
statement , cause what I understood that $_ needs to be set before ,
for RE to work.

X-Ftn-To: George

"George" <> wrote:
>Hi
>I needed to run regular exression(RE) for all the elements of an array
>so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
>Following line
>@Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/,$_} @getlistF;
>gave me all the existing elements plus what is extracted by RE
>
>but
>following line
>@Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/} @getlistF;
>gave me just what RE returned,
>
>Definetly it means that I do not understand MAP correctly,
>can somebody please explain what is the difference between two
>statement , cause what I understood that $_ needs to be set before ,
>for RE to work.

You didn't say what do you want to accomplish, and I'm not sure what are
you're expectations regarding map?


--
Matija

George <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> Hi
> I needed to run regular exression(RE) for all the elements of an array
> so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
> Following line
> @Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/,$_} @getlistF;
> gave me all the existing elements plus what is extracted by RE
>
> but
> following line
> @Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/} @getlistF;
> gave me just what RE returned,
>
> Definetly it means that I do not understand MAP correctly,
> can somebody please explain what is the difference between two
> statement , cause what I understood that $_ needs to be set before ,
> for RE to work.

Have you read the map documentation (not "MAP", case matters)?

As it explains, the block you give to map is evaluated in list context,
with $_ set to the list elements in turn.

In the first case, the block returns whatever the regex extracts, followed
by $_. In the second case, there is no $_ in the block, so it returns
just what the regex extracts. What else is to explain?

Anno

hi george,
If Map bugs you, why dont you try grep. It works.
Peroli Sivaprakasam

"Peroli" <> wrote in news:1106011879.674678.237640
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

> hi george,
> If Map bugs you, why dont you try grep. It works.

map (not Map) works too. map and grep do different things. See

perldoc -f map
perldoc -f grep

Sinan.

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:19:26 GMT, "George" <>
wrote:

>I needed to run regular exression(RE) for all the elements of an array

Yes...

>so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.

Not such a thing as MAP...

>Following line
>@Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/,$_} @getlistF;

....as your correct use of map() shows.

>gave me all the existing elements plus what is extracted by RE

is this what you want? Is this _not_ what you want? What do you want?

>but
>following line
>@Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/} @getlistF;
>gave me just what RE returned,

Yes...

>Definetly it means that I do not understand MAP correctly,

Perhaps... are you missing a list context here?

Definitely you do _not_ understand that there's not such a thing as
MAP. And I can't really understand why you spell it so.

>can somebody please explain what is the difference between two
>statement , cause what I understood that $_ needs to be set before ,
>for RE to work.

What does make you suppose it's not set?

However I can't explain you the difference, but hopefully

perldoc -f map

can.


Michele
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Michele Dondi wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:19:26 GMT, "George" <>
> wrote:
>
> > I needed to run regular exression(RE) for all the elements of an
> > array
>
> Yes...
>
> > so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
>
> Not such a thing as MAP...
>
> > Following line
> > @Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/,$_} @getlistF;
>
> ...as your correct use of map() shows.
>
> > gave me all the existing elements plus what is extracted by RE
>
> is this what you want? Is this not what you want? What do you want?
>
> > but
> > following line
> > @Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/} @getlistF;
> > gave me just what RE returned,
>
> Yes...
>
> > Definetly it means that I do not understand MAP correctly,
>
> Perhaps... are you missing a list context here?
>
> Definitely you do not understand that there's not such a thing as
> MAP. And I can't really understand why you spell it so.
>
> > can somebody please explain what is the difference between two
> > statement , cause what I understood that $_ needs to be set before ,
> > for RE to work.
>
> What does make you suppose it's not set?
>
> However I can't explain you the difference, but hopefully
>
> perldoc -f map
>
> can.
>
>
> Michele

writing map as MAP was just for eye catcher, like in BOLD, I never
thought you guys would even comment on that,
any way

Anno Siegel wrote:

> George <> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
> > Hi
> > I needed to run regular exression(RE) for all the elements of an
> > array so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
> > Following line
> > @Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/,$_} @getlistF;
> > gave me all the existing elements plus what is extracted by RE
> >
> > but
> > following line
> > @Rfolder=map {/#(.*?)(?=/} @getlistF;
> > gave me just what RE returned,
> >
> > Definetly it means that I do not understand MAP correctly,
> > can somebody please explain what is the difference between two
> > statement , cause what I understood that $_ needs to be set before ,
> > for RE to work.
>
> Have you read the map documentation (not "MAP", case matters)?
>
> As it explains, the block you give to map is evaluated in list
> context, with $_ set to the list elements in turn.
>
> In the first case, the block returns whatever the regex extracts,
> followed by $_. In the second case, there is no $_ in the block, so
> it returns just what the regex extracts. What else is to explain?
>
> Anno

my mistake in understanding that RE was taking $_ as input ,

"George" <> wrote in message
news...
> Michele Dondi wrote:
>> > so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
>>
>> Not such a thing as MAP...
>
> writing map as MAP was just for eye catcher, like in BOLD, I never
> thought you guys would even comment on that,
> any way

The reason it was commented on, is that a number of Perl newbies don't
realise that Perl is a case sensitive language and they often make silly
mistakes like:

use cgi;

instead of:

use CGI;

If someone talks about using the xyz module (instead of XYZ), or the ABC
function (instead of abc), it put doubt into peoples mind as to whether the
poster really knows the correct case.

Tintin wrote:

>
> "George" <> wrote in message
> news...
> > Michele Dondi wrote:
> >> > so I thought of using MAP(one liner) insted foreach.
> > >
> >> Not such a thing as MAP...
> >
> > writing map as MAP was just for eye catcher, like in BOLD, I never
> > thought you guys would even comment on that,
> > any way
>
> The reason it was commented on, is that a number of Perl newbies
> don't realise that Perl is a case sensitive language and they often
> make silly mistakes like:
>
> use cgi;
>
> instead of:
>
> use CGI;
>
> If someone talks about using the xyz module (instead of XYZ), or the
> ABC function (instead of abc), it put doubt into peoples mind as to
> whether the poster really knows the correct case.

Makes sense,
thanks for clarifying