I have a problem with the splice function ..

my $col = 1 ;
my @arr = (qw/one two three four five / );
my @indexes = ( 0 .. $#arr ) ;
print ">> @arr[@indexes]\n";
print ">@indexes<\n";  # show the indexes ! 
my $key= splice @arr, $col,1; # remove $col from @arr.
# You would expect that @indexes are NOT changed; However : 
print ">@indexes<\n"; # still the same indexes are shown.
print "$key : @arr[@indexes]\n"; # this is NOT expected, but I do not 
+understand this behaviour.
print ">@indexes<\n"; # still the same indexes are shown.

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Output : 

>> one two three four five
>0 1 2 3 4<
>0 1 2 3 4<
two : one three four five
>0 1 2 3 4<

I did not change @indexes in any way, however the splice did some nasty things!! can somebody explain ?

In reply to splice and indexes by teun-arno

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