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Wondering why this construct returns as many empty elements as are present in the argument of keys(), instead of nothing, when %found and %good are identical:

@bogus = map { $_ if !defined $good{$_}; } keys %found; @missing = map { $_ if !defined $found{$_}; } keys %good;

Answer: use grep instead of map. per merlyn and ysth, grep selects and map transforms.