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OK, i'm being lazy to ask here.

I'm always finding myself doing this:
$newvar = $oldvar;
$newvar = s/something/else/;
...because i want both of them. Is there a way to do this in 1 statement?

Time Waster <> wrote:
> OK, i'm being lazy to ask here.
>
> I'm always finding myself doing this:
> $newvar = $oldvar;
> $newvar = s/something/else/;
> ..because i want both of them. Is there a way to do this in 1 statement?


(my $newvar = $oldvar) =~ s/something/else/;


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Tad McClellan
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Quoth :
> On 2008-02-23, Tad J McClellan <> wrote:
> >
> > (my $newvar = $oldvar) =~ s/something/else/;
> >
> I thought that would change $oldvar as well, but it doesn't. Why not?

The return value of (my $newvar = $oldvar) is $newvar, so that's what
gets modified.

Ben