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in reply to Last index use in array slice

splice does the trick:

print join ', ', splice @{[split '', '1234567890']}, 5;

Prints:

6, 7, 8, 9, 0
True laziness is hard work

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Re^2: Last index use in array slice
by ltp (Beadle) on Dec 03, 2012 at 03:52 UTC

    ...and I am enlightened.

    Thankyou very much for your answer.