in reply to Re-calling in a list of variables into different .pl's

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking for, but I suspect you can benefit from array slices:

sub call_variables 
{
    my $spec_vars = param('spec_vars');
    return (split /~/, $spec_vars)[0,1,2,3,4];
}

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