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in reply to Re^2: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map)
in thread Perl oddities

True. I'd like to see a switch:

my $modified = s/$pattern/$change_to/gr;

Where /r stands for 'replaced', or somesuch.

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Re^4: Perl oddities (s/// doesn't DWIM in map)
by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Mar 01, 2005 at 18:50 UTC
    Would that be equivalent to 
    (my $modified = $_) =~ s/$pattern/$change_to/g;

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    s/$pattern/$change_to/g;
my $modified = $_;

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