Re: Determine first element in foreach

[1s44c]

Can anyone tell me how i can obtain the first element?

To answer the question exactly as asked you can shift off the first element:

my @array = qw/one two three/;
my $x = shift @array;

That will remove the first element from the array leaving 'two','three'. If you don't want to alter the list you can directly access the first element:

my @array = qw/one two three/;
my $x = $array[0];

[Anonymous Monk]

Thanks for the help everyone.

I will take a look at all the answers and see which solution to implement.