From: "Beginner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On 9 Nov 2007 at 20:04, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> > @[EMAIL PROTECTED] = map [$valone[$_], $valtwo[$_]] (0..$#valone);
> >
> >
> > The map produces a list of arrayrefs, each referenced array contains
> > one item from @valone and one from @valtwo. The 0th element of the
> > result, the 0th elements of @valone and @valtwo, etc.
>
> Now there you go again with a beautifully simple use of map that does
> exactly what I want (do you need a comma before (0..$#valone)?).
Yes, I was missing a comma. I usually use the
map {} (list)
format that doesn't require the comma ... this is what happens if I
change the habbits and don't test my code :-)
> I notice now that I wrote my example wrong. Each array was meant to
> have 4 items in (sorry Rob). So it should have been
>
> my @valone = 1..4;
> my @valtwo = 11..14;
>
> There seems to be a bit of confusion over what I was trying to
> achieve. I typed out the output from Dumper I was expecting because I
> was/am not entirely sure what terms to use. The above operation looks
> like a hash slice to me albeit with another operator (map) involved.
Yep, the "Dumper output" was exactly the right thing to use :-)
Jenda
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