gogoglou:

You can use the slice syntax to get a set of array elements:

my @array = (0 .. 50);
my @first5 = @array[0..4];
my @allButFirst = @array[1..$#array];
my @FirstThirdAndEighth = @array[0,2,7];
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For details, read perldoc perldata and look for "slice" to find information about array and hash slicing.

...roboticus