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";
When run, it gives:
$ perl flp.pl
d, liam, niapple
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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