On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:43:08 -0600, Siegfried Heintze
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> This works and does what I want it to:
>
> perl -e '@x = split("\\.", "a.b.c"); print $x[0];'
>
> Why does not this work?
> perl -e 'print @{split("\\.", "a.b.c")}[0];'
Because split doesn't return an array reference, it returns a list.
print( (split(/\./, "a.b.c"))[0] );
>
> Is there a compact way to take a slice of a split (or other function that
> returns an array) without creating a temporary variable?
>
> Thanks,
> Siegfried
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