On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Joel Bernstein wrote:

> 
> I have a problem with some code which I'm trying to debug. I'm not
> certain, but I think perhaps I'm doing something wrong in the following 
> line - perhaps inadvertently creating an array slice?
> 
> what do you understand by the line: 
>       my $foo=( split ',' => $line )[7];
> ?

I understand that you should have used two lines. Why not do so?

my @tmp = split /,/, $line;
my $foo = $tmp[7];

S.

> i'm trying to get the split to return an array, of which I then get the
> 7th element (and assign to $foo).
> 
> /joel
> 
> 
> 

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