IRC rules! :) j 02:07 < jhannah> ick. what's the proper form of this? map { /servers_(\d+)/; $1; } grep { /servers_/ } 02:14 < dngor> jhannah: map { substr($_, 8) } grep { /servers_/ } ... is one way 02:15 < dngor> jhannah: map { /servers_(\d+)/ ? $1 : () } ... is another 02:16 < jhannah> ooo empty () collapse... cool :)