Hi, I am using perl on the linux platform (v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi).
While debugging a script I came across a scenario where array access was happening with a negative index. (because of a corner case that was not properly handled). This resulted in accessing the array in a reverse order. A script to mimic the behaviour my $a = "/one/two/three/four/five" ; my $b = (split (/\//,$a))[-1] ; my $c = (split (/\//,$a))[-2] ; my $d = (split (/\//,$a))[-3] ; my $e = (split (/\//,$a))[-4] ; my $f = (split (/\//,$a))[-5] ; print "\$b => $b\n"; print "\$c => $c\n"; print "\$d => $d\n"; print "\$e => $e\n"; print "\$f => $f\n"; On executing the above script the output is $b => five $c => four $d => three $e => two $f => one I wanted to ask others if this is expected behaviour. If I make use of this feature will it cause compatibility issues with the later versions of perl. Thanks in advance for the help.
