Slicing with negative numbers does work. What doesn't however is 0..-1, as the .. operator only counts up. So (0..-1) is an empty list.

@{$row}[0,-1] will work. Or if you want a list of negative number, you can make one with map: @{$row}[map -$_, 0..2]

Edit: oh I thought you wanted 0..-2 to mean (0, -1, -2), but maybe hippo's interpretation is what you wanted: from the first element to the one before the last. In which case you have to use $#{$row}, the index of the last element as proposed by hippo

In reply to Re: Slicing an array variable with a -1 or any negative number doesn't work by Eily
in thread Slicing an array variable with a -1 or any negative number doesn't work by igoryonya

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