use Perl

• That looks like transliteration. (Score:1)

  by brian_d_foy (44)

  # TIMTOWTDI :)
  tr/a/z/ for @array;
  
  Those sorts of loops always seem to mess with my mind though, and eventually I want to add another statement, so I always end up using the more common block form.
  
  foreach ( @array )
          {
          warn "Working on [$_]\n" if $Debug;
          tr/a/z/;
          warn "\tnow it is [$_]\n";
          }
  
  print() is the best debugger ever invented. :)
  
  Various people have tried to conv
• Subject and predicate (Score:2)

  by petdance (2468)

  The reason I wrote it as

  s/-/ /g for @array;

  instead of

  for ( @array ) {
      s/-/ /g;
  }

  was not to save keystrokes, but to put the interesting part of the code first. I think of how I'd say it in English:

  Change any dashes to spaces throughout the list

  instead of

  Throughout the list, change any dashes to spaces

  I think about that a lot. That's why I like the "open or die" metaphor instead of what I see as entirely backwards "die unless open".

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