Re: [FWP] appending to two strings

[Steven Lembark <lembark@wrkhors.com>]

John Porter wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 01:05:02PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to do the following two lines in one line? :
> >
> > $string1 .= $append;
> > $string2 .= $append;
> 
>   $_ .= $append for ( $string1, $string2 );
> 
> and if for is too "multi-line" for you, try map:
> 
>   ( $string1, $string2 ) = map { $_ . $append } ( $string1, $string2 );
> 

i always thought the "." operator was higher overhead becasue it had
more storage management.  why not:

	( $a, $b ) = map { "$_$append" } ( $string1, $string2 );

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