Re^2: What’s the best way to get the last N elements of a Perl array?

Beware: What does that solution do, if $n > @source?

See:

$ perl -le '@a = 1..3; @b = @a[(@a-5)..$#a]; print "<$_>" for @b;'
<2>
<3>
<1>
<2>
<3>
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Re^3: What’s the best way to get the last N elements of a Perl array? by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Apr 20, 2009 at 13:09 UTC
`@last_n=@source[(@source-$n)..$#source]if ($n<=@scource);` [download] Would be the solution there I guess	[reply] [d/l]