Thanx... didn't know that it was an empty list... I thought it was '' > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 5:18 PM > To: Nikola Janceski > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'Beginners (E-mail)' > Subject: RE: rewrite without using two functions? > > > On Apr 9, Nikola Janceski said: > > >Why are there still no empty elements in the returned array > for the items > >that didn't match the pattern? > > >> No; as my post stated, doing LIST = map BLOCK LIST; puts > BLOCK in list > >> context. A regex in list context will return the parenthetical > >> captures if it succeeded, and () if it failed: > > Because a regex does not return undef or '' in list context, > it returns > (), an empty list, a list of ZERO elements. > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ > RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ > http://www.cpan.org/ > ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by > Manning, in 2002 ** > <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, > yansliterate of course. > [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, > let me know. ] > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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