in reply to JAPH or not???

Cute.

You have an anonymous array with values 'a' through 'z' enumerated by the .. operator.

The values are obtained using a slice. The print statement prints the values of the slice.

The # initiates a comment, and everything after that is just a tease.

The actual output, "cored" is your perlmonks.org username.

Dave

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