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
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