Hi Peter, On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Peter Gordon <pete...@netspace.net.au>wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 07:10:59 +0100, timothy adigun wrote: > >my @fruits = qw( apple pear banana ) ; > >print join '', map "[$_]", @fruits ; > > > >now you can see each element surrounded by [] and then joined into > >one string for printing. > > > >you don't even need the join if you are just printing it but i put > >it there so you can use the same concept if you are going to > >save the string. > > my $str = join (map "[$_]", @fruits); > See the usage of "join", `perldoc -f join`, what you wanted is my $str = join '', map "[$_]", @fruits; > say $str; > > This code outputs a blank line & I can't see how to produce > a string of the required output using join & map. Anybody > have an answer? > Thanks > > -- > Peter Gordon, pete...@netspace.net.au on 08/04/2013 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > > -- Tim