>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Corbet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there any easy way to add two characters to the start of each item in a
> list.
> I have a list, for example, containing "ID" as the first element, and
> "PRICE" as the second element. (The quotes are not actually stored in the
> element.)
> What I need the list to become like is as though it was set up the same as
> typing:
> @ary = (\$ID,\$PRICE);
> So, I need to add a \ and $ to the start of each item.
> I know I could do this by stepping through the list and joining it onto
> "\\$" and then pushing it back in to another list. However, this seems a
> little bit over complicated. Surely, Perl has a trick up its sleeve -
> maybe a substitution of some sort.
How about:
foreach (@ary)
{
s/^/\\\$/;
}
I tried it and it seems to work.
Sarir
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