I'm looking for a shortcut to extract a specific element out of an array without using a temporary variable. The array is returned by a function and I only need a particular element of that.

Since a line of code is worth 2000 lines of plain (gibberish) text (of mine), here is what I do:

@tmp = function($param);
$elem = $tmp[5]
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$elem = (function($param))[5]
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Thanks,

mrd

PS: I could wrap function() in another function that returns the element I want from a local array. But that's just too much work :)

PPS: I'm sure it's been discussed before but I can't seem to come up with an adequate search expression.