Rather than splice you can use undef to ignore unwanted elements. Like this: my (undef, @headings) = split ' ', first {/^\s*AUID/} @lines;

Going further (it's not related to the OP anymore) it works exactly as if there was one scalar in that place that was then ignored. So in the following example: (undef, $second, undef, $hash{fourth}, @rest, undef) = some_function() The first and third values are ignored, the second and fourth get in $second and $hash{fourth}, but @rest gets all the following values, and the last undef is useless. So it let's you ignore values counting from the left, but never couting from the right.

In reply to Re^2: shift split grep question by Eily
in thread shift split grep question by Xilman

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