Re^2: Parse data representing hash

Thank you for your advice, it correlates with what others have said by maintaining state in @keychain.

When truncating I suppose the best approach be something along the lines of splice @keychain, $tabs_count; (update: nevermind this question, the example provided by choroba covers this)

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Re^3: Parse data representing hash by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Jun 29, 2014 at 09:40 UTC
Yes, `splice` is likely the best approach. From its documentation: Removes the elements designated by OFFSET and LENGTH from an array [...] If LENGTH is omitted, removes everything from OFFSET onward. So with zero-based arary indexing, it really is as simple as `splice @keychain, $tabs_count;`, yes. You could also use an array slice, BTW, e.g. `@keychain = @keychain[0 .. ($tabs_count - 1)];`, but that's less elegant and idiomatic.	[reply]
Re^4: Parse data representing hash by peterp (Sexton) on Jun 29, 2014 at 18:51 UTC
Thanks again Just to add to these approaches, another approach suggested below is to do $#keychain = $tabs_count Regards	[reply]
Re^5: Parse data representing hash by AppleFritter (Vicar) on Jun 29, 2014 at 20:08 UTC
Oh, nice! I wasn't aware that you could assign to `$#...` to shorten (and grow?) an array. Thanks for sharing that tip, I doubt I'd have seen it below.	[reply]