It's not clear whether you want "every other element, beginning with the first"
or "every numeric element with the property 'odd'". Your example doesn't clear
that up at all. :-)
If it's the latter you want:
map { $_ & 1 ? $_ : () } @l;
--- On Wed, 5/16/12, damien krotkine <dkrotk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: damien krotkine <dkrotk...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: seeking golfing advice
> To: fwp@perl.org
> Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 7:19 AM
> btw here is an example :
>
> the code, applied on (1, 2, 3, 4) would return (1, 3).
> Thanks
>
> On 16 May 2012 13:15, damien krotkine <dkrotk...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm using this code to get a list of only the odd
> elements of an
> > array. The resulting list must have the same order as
> the array.
> >
> > map { state $f; ($_) x (++$f%2) } @array;
> >
> > I'm looking for advice to make it shorter or nicer.
> Everything in perl
> > 5.12 is allowed, but must pass use strict. I've failed
> at using the
> > '..' operator to act as a flip/flop operator...
> >
> > thanks,
> > dams
>
