On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 3:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] into the middle of @players without removing any elements > from @players. > > so i've done the following... > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > # extracting elements using splice > > @players = ("ryno", "fukudome", "grace", "banks", "santo", > "soto", "marmol", "sori", "bigZ", "pie"); > @dump = splice(@players, 0,2, "theriot", "sosa"); > print "The original array is @players\n"; > print "The players dumped after the splice are: @dump.\n"; > print "The spliced array is now @players.\n"; > > > ...but I'm not sure I'm doing the splice correct, because the first > line prints all the players including the ones stated in @dump. should > i be using negative offset or length? >
Your first print is after the splice: @players = ("ryno", "fukudome", "grace", "banks", "santo", "soto", "marmol", "sori", "bigZ", "pie"); print "The original array is @players\n"; # <== print before splicing @dump = splice(@players, 0,2, "theriot", "sosa"); print "The players dumped by the splice are: @dump.\n"; print "The spliced array is now @players.\n"; HTH, -- jay -------------------------------------------------- This email and attachment(s): [ ] blogable; [ x ] ask first; [ ] private and confidential daggerquill [at] gmail [dot] com http://www.tuaw.com http://www.downloadsquad.com http://www.engatiki.org values of β will give rise to dom!