On May 10, Sven Neuhaus said: >sub x { > my @a; > my $b = [ qw(a b c) ]; > return [ > map { [ '??', $_ ] } @a, > map { $_; } @$b > ]; >} I don't know what you were trying to do... return [ map [ '??', $_ ], ( @a, @$b ) ]; is what it boils down to... -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ Are you a Monk? http://www.perlmonks.com/ http://forums.perlguru.com/ Perl Programmer at RiskMetrics Group, Inc. http://www.riskmetrics.com/ Acacia Fraternity, Rensselaer Chapter. Brother #734 ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe