I've been working on a nifty little program to count up all my CodeRed attacks per day, and I realized I could chop an entire line (!!) off my program if i could change this: 
@parsed=split/\s/,$line;
$CR{substr($parsed[3],1,11)}[$line=~/(NNNNN)/+2*$line=~/(XXXXX)/]++;

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(BTW, that takes the date, uses it as a key, and index 0 is everything else, index 1 is CRI hits on that date, and index 2 is CRII hits on that date.)
To a one liner replacing the $parsed[3], with some kind immediate access to index 3 of what split passes back, like 
$CR{substr(split(/\s/,$line)[3],1,11)}[$line=~/(NNNNN)/+2*$line=~/(XXX
+XX)/]++;

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that example doesnt work, obviously, and i've been mangling split every which way to get that quick reference to any of it's indices. I've treated it as a real array, as an arrayref but no way i do it will get me the desired results. I've tried simple testing by just trying to print out an index like that, without it nested in substr, but regardless it doesn't work. Anyone know how to help me save a precious few bytes from my code?

Thanks

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In reply to split as immediate array? by Rydor

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