On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 04:46:24PM -0400, Bradford Ritchie wrote:
> ...but I really need to print everything after the 8th element. If the
> ...array were named, I could do something like this:
>
> @arr = split(/:/);
> print @arr[1,6,8..$#arr]);
Your asked question was answered well by St
I don't think so. I do (split)[-1] regularly and it works fine. If you
left out the parens however it would think this was a pattern to match. I
was told by someone on perlmonks that the failure of [3 .. -1] with split is
something that should be fixed in subsequent versions of Perl.
>
> [
[1,6,8..-1]
in this case "-" is seen as a metacharacter inside the character class and
is not seen as -1
Hi,
I have an unnamed array which I created from splitting up a colon separated
string:
$_ = "0th:1st:2nd:3rd:4th:5th:6th:7th:Some random text: might have
:colons: or might n
Bradford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an unnamed array which I created from
> splitting up a colon separated string:
>
> $_ = "0th:1st:2nd:3rd:4th:5th:6th:7th:Some
> random text: might have :colons: or might not"
> print ((split /:/)[1,6,8]);
>
> ...but I really need to print everythi
field are not field delimiters, but just part of the text.
Other than that, you may need to bite the bullet and name the array.
> -Original Message-
> From: Bradford Ritchie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subj
Hi,
I have an unnamed array which I created from splitting up a colon separated string:
$_ = "0th:1st:2nd:3rd:4th:5th:6th:7th:Some random text: might have :colons: or
might not"
print ((split /:/)[1,6,8]);
...but I really need to print everything after the 8th element. If the ar
