in reply to Assign multiple array elements to new variables

#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my @ar = qw/Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun/; my ($var1, $var2, $var3, $var4) = @ar[0,1,4,7]; print "$var1, $var2, $var3, $var4\n";

Array slices (or sections) use the @ symbol.