you posted first. I did come up with a slight variation on the 2nd task. 
use strict;
use warnings;
use 5.10.0;   #for say


#a = [ 'a','b','c','d','e','f','g' ]
my @a = qw(a b c d e f g);

#a[:3]    # abc
say @a[0..2];     # only first 3


#a[:-3]  # abcd
say @a[0..$#a-3]; # exclude last 3


#a[3:]   # defg
say @a[3..$#a];   # exclude first 3


#a[-3:]  # efg
say @a[-3..-1];   # only last 3

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In reply to Re^2: Converting python list range expressions to perl by Marshall
in thread Converting python list range expressions to perl by ibm1620

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