Accesing the array elements via indexes which are inserted into it by push

paddu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi everyone, I am very new to pearl scripting. Actually i am having a doubt I am inserting some values into an array using the push command and i want to retrieve some of this values using the indexes. Is it possible? i.e, I am inserting var1, var2,var3,var4...var100 values into an array @list

push(@list,$var1);
push(@list,$var2);
push(@list,$var3);
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push(@list,$var100);
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Now my question, is it possible to retrieve some of the elements from that array though indexes like list[5],list[10],list[15],list[25]?. I tried it, but in vain..please help me.

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Re: Accesing the array elements via indexes which are inserted into it by push by LanX (Saint) on Jan 08, 2013 at 07:14 UTC
it's `$list[5]`, because `$` signals a scalar (i.e. singular) value you operate on. plz see perldata for details. please stop this try and error approach to Perl and try getting a good book/tutorial! =) Cheers Rolf	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Accesing the array elements via indexes which are inserted into it by push by Anonymous Monk on Jan 08, 2013 at 07:41 UTC
yes you can, but instead of `list[5]`(which will end up in error) you need to treat it as a scalar `$list[5]`	[reply] [d/l] [select]