Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > This doesn't work as expected. Map works on _every_ element of list; if > expression doesn't return anything it just puts undef I think. For example > while > > print join(";", > map { > "a/$_" if ($_ eq lc($_)) > } ("a", "b", "C", "d")), > "\n";' > > returns "a/a;a/b;;a/d" (notice the doubled ';'), the correct way would be to ... say this, than using extra grep {}. print join(";", map { ($_ eq lc($_)) ? "a/$_" : () } ("a", "b", "C", "d")), "\n"; > What about my proposed solution? Don't sort, use sorted keys instead, i.e. > something like (after unmangling whitespace) > > sub href(%) { > my @mapping = ( project => "p", > action => "a", > hash => "h", > hash_parent => "hp", > hash_base => "hb", > file_name => "f", > file_parent => "fp", > page => "pg", > searchtext => "s", > ); > my %mapping; > my @mapping_keys; > for (my $i = 0; $i < @mapping; $i += 2) { > my ($k, $v) = ($mapping[$i], $mapping[$i+1]); > $mapping{$k} = $v; > push @mapping_keys, $k; > } Now this loop got an expensive way to say %mapping = @mapping plus assigning @mapping_keys, so I would do only the push part in the loop for readability while changing the name of the variable a bit more meaningful. my %mapping = @mapping; my @valid_params; for (my $i = 0; $i < @mapping; $i += 2) { push @valid_params, $mapping[$i]; } But aside from that, I very much prefer your version that loops over what _we_ define (i.e. @valid_params), rather than what the user happens to throw at us (i.e. keys %params). - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html