Yeah...I actually figured it out last night, and couldn't find my post to
send out the correction. but thanks for the assistance.
my final code looks like this..
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# extracting elements using splice
@players = ("ryno", "fukudome", "grace", "banks", "santo",
"soto", "marmol", "sori", "bigZ", "pie");
print "The original array is @players\n";
@dump = splice(@players, 4,0, "theriot", "sosa");
print "The players dumped after the splice are: @dump.\n";
print "The spliced array is now @players.\n";
2008/4/10 Jay Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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
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