MrSparks:

You almost had it--your mistake was using parentheses. For an array slice, you use brackets:

my @array = (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
my @temp = @array[1..3];
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For hash slices, you use braces:

my @nationalities = @nationality_of{'Ovid', 'Tennyson'};
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The first message is a warning, but you can ignore it, because it'll go away once you fix the previous error. (The line that declared the array has a syntax error, so @nationalities never got properly declared.)

...roboticus

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