Re: slice indexing

2003-01-13 Thread Bryan Harris
I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th to last in a variable length array. I thought I could just do: @comments[0..-4] but Perl seems to choke on this. It's perfectly okay with a slice using two negative #s: @comments[-2..-4] Anyone know why

slice indexing

2003-01-12 Thread Bryan Harris
I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th to last in a variable length array. I thought I could just do: @comments[0..-4] but Perl seems to choke on this. It's perfectly okay with a slice using two negative #s: @comments[-2..-4] Anyone know why it doesn't

Re: slice indexing

2003-01-12 Thread John W. Krahn
Bryan Harris wrote: I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th to last in a variable length array. I thought I could just do: @comments[0..-4] but Perl seems to choke on this. It's perfectly okay with a slice using two negative #s:

Re: slice indexing

2003-01-12 Thread Rob Dixon
Rob Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hi Bryan Bryan Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th to last in a variable length array. I

slice indexing

2003-01-12 Thread Bryan Harris
I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th to last in a variable length array. I thought I could just do: @comments[0..-4] but Perl seems to choke on this. It's perfectly okay with a slice using two negative #s: @comments[-2..-4] Anyone know why it doesn't