Yes, what you see on the left side of the equal sign is called an array slice. You can do something like this: 

my @array = 0..5;
my @ranks[@array] = 5..10; # @ranks now contains 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

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The code you posted is just the same idea.

Update:

As noted by AnomalousMonk in the post just below, there is an error in the code above: it should be: 
my @array = 0..5;
my @ranks;
@ranks[@array] = 5..10; # @ranks now contains 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

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We can't use "my" on an array with subscripts accessing to part of the array, the array must be declared before. I tested the code directly under the debugger, where it is not pôssible to use "my", and added the my on the line afterwards, creating erroneous code.

In reply to Re: Loops in Perl by Laurent_R
in thread Loops in Perl by carlriz

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