autobox::List::Util - bring the List::Util functions to autobox

Version 20090629

autobox::List::Util brings all of the functions from List::Util to arrays as methods.

    use autobox::List::Util;

    my @array = qw/ foo bar baz /;

    print @array->first(sub { /ar/ }), "\n"; # "bar"

    print [5, 6, 3, 4]->max, "\n"; # 6

    print @array->maxstr, "\n"; # baz

    print [5, 6, 3, 4]->min, "\n"; # 3

    print @array->minstr, "\n"; # foo

    print [1 .. 10]->shuffle, "\n"; #1 to 10 randomly shuffled

    print [1 .. 10]->sum, "\n"; # 55

    print [1 .. 10]->reduce( sub { $a + $b } ), "\n"; # 55

This method behaves nearly the same as the first function from List::Util, but it takes a coderef not a block because methods can't use prototypes.

This method behaves nearly the same as the reduce function from List::Util, but it takes a coderef not a block for the same reason. It also has a bug (see BUGS)

If called in scalar context it returns a reference to an array instead of a list. This allows shuffle to be chained with other calls.

These methods behave exactly the same as their List::Util counterparts.

Chas. J. Owens IV, <chas.owens at gmail.com>

The reduce method works with $main::a and $main::b, not your current package's $a and $b, so you need to say

    print @array->reduce( sub { $main::a + $main::b } ), "\n";

if you are not in the main package. Reduce uses $_, so it doesn't suffer from this problem.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc autobox::List::Util

You can also look for information at:

* RT: CPAN's request tracker

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=autobox-List-Util

* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/autobox-List-Util

* CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/autobox-List-Util

* Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/autobox-List-Util/

Copyright 2009 Chas. J. Owens IV, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.