Hi Monks,

Was just trying some statements and wondered why a similar one doesn't work. 
print ("adf","ff","f"); # Gladly prints the list
print ("adf","ff","f")[1]; #Gives a syntax error
$val=("adf","ff","f")[1];print $val; #Works easily
print join "",("adf","ff","f"); #Works
print join "",("adf","ff","f")[1]; #Works since treated in list contex
+t

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I might be wrong on some basics. But why the 2nd statement fails. I mean if such a thing works, then we can directly use it to print a single element returned from a function or method(like in Java).e.g. 
(sort {$a<=>} @lst)[0] # an alternative way to get min value from some
+ numeric list.

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Similarly in Java we can do: 
obj.method()[2] #when we know that method returns an array

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Tried to search a little about this, but could not find a reasonable thread for the same. Sorry again if this is some conceptual weakness of mine.

In reply to Getting single element from an array by gurpreetsingh13

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