Re: cool way of manipulating array elements

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Maybe map? and a util function to test for whether each element is a number - Scalar::Util?

use strict; use warnings;
# or some other util function that can tell if it is a number...
use Scalar::Util qw(looks_like_number); 

my @array = ('1','2','45','65','what is this?');
my @mod = map {if (looks_like_number($_)){$_*2} else {$_}} @array;
print "$_\n" for @mod;
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Hope this helps... (I am a bit Rusty, so be gentle...)

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Re^2: cool way of manipulating array elements by pashanoid (Scribe) on Aug 30, 2011 at 08:18 UTC
thank you! works great!	[reply]
Re^3: cool way of manipulating array elements by GrandFather (Saint) on Aug 30, 2011 at 10:06 UTC
If you want to modify the original array contents then you could modify BioLion's code thus: `$_ *= 2 for grep {looks_like_number($_)} @array;` [download] True laziness is hard work	[reply] [d/l]

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