On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:26:59PM -0400, Jamie Risk wrote: > It's been my experience that readers of this group relish a > demonstration of their persnicketiness. For this I give the > following; it works, but doesn't appeal to me: > > my @tmp_list; > my @list; > my $description; > push @tmp_list, split(/\t/,$_,6); > push @list, $tmp_list[0], $tmp_list[1], > $tmp_list[2], $tmp_list[3], $tmp_list[5]; > $description = $tmp_list[4];
CHOOSE ONE (untested). # # list slice (v. ugly) # my ($desc, @list) = (split /\t/, $_, 6)[4,0..3,5]; # # splice # my @list = split (/\t/, $_, 6); my $desc = splice(@list, 4, 1); -- Steve -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]