flieckster:

If you have a list of values and want to call a function on each of the values to make a new list, then you want to use map. I don't know where you're getting basename, so I just made a trivial example:

use strict;
use warnings;

sub rm_first_3_chars {
    my $name = shift;
    return substr($name, 3);
}

my @list_of_names = ("Fred", "Billiam", "Wozniapple");

@list_of_names = map { rm_first_3_chars($_) } @list_of_names;

print join(", ", @list_of_names), "\n";
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When run, it gives:

$ perl flp.pl
d, liam, niapple
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Essentially, you put the code you want to execute for each list item in the map block. In that block, $_ refers to each list item, and whatever the code returns is the new value that will be in the output list.

...roboticus

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