On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 09:27:03AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote: > Joel Bernstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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]; > > ? > > > It's an index into a list, what else would it be? Perfectly good Perl > idiom.
Thanks to all the people who confirmed this. I agree that it's stylistically valid Perl, in fact I find it more elegant than any other solution posited. > > What's breaking? Something else. I've fixed it now ;) Thankyou all. > /joel
