From: Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> In keeping with my feeling that with 'map' one can do almost anything
quite right, but
> (if I knew how) I'm happy to have managed to build something using
> 'map' (without external help I mean). Seems easy, now. ;-)
>
> # months into numbers...
>
> $month = "Jan" # for example
>
> my %m2n;
> my $x = "00";
>
> map { $m2n{$_} = ++$x } qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
> Dec);
you should not use map{}() in void context. map{}() is supposed to
create a list, in this case you are not creating any. You are just
looping through a list. You should use for/foreach for that:
$m2n{$_} = ++$x
for qw(Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec);
But the idea was good :-)
Jenda
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