Re^2: Common Perl Idioms

Your slurp:

    @files = { local(@ARGV, $/) = @filenames; <> }; # missing 'do'
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Should actually be:

    @files = do { local(@ARGV, $/) = @filenames; <> };
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And your index hash:

    @foo{ @foo } = 0 .. @foo; # off-by-one error
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Should be:

    @foo{ @foo } = 0 .. $#foo;
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Re^3: Common Perl Idioms by Anonymous Monk on Jul 23, 2004 at 23:21 UTC
You are right about the slurp, a typo on my part. But the indexing will work. The extra number (int @foo) will just be ignored because there won't be a corresponding lvalue. Ted :->	[reply]

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