On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 01:07:45 -0500, Michael Higgins wrote:
>map { $total += $_=~m#[\r\f]+#g } @data;
This won't do what I think you want it to do. m//g in scalar context
will match once or not a t all, but never mutliple times, even if it
could match more than once. I think dropping the /g wouldn't affect the
result, in this case.
This might produce better results ("$_ =~ " is superfluous):
map { $total += () = m#[\r\f]+#g } @data;
Apart from the "+", which confuses me a little, you also could try out
the tr/// operator:
map { $total += tr#\r\f##d } @data;
--
Bart.
