Relevant code; $dbh is a DBI database handle and Tr, td are from the CGI module: 
foreach (@{$dbh->selectall_arrayref("SELECT * FROM search_atoms WHERE 
+occurences >= 5 ORDER BY occurences DESC")}) {
    print Tr( td({'-align' => 'left'}, [ $_->[0 .. 3] ] ) );
}

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If it's second argument is an array ref, td is supposed to iterate over it. So there should be four <td>blah</td>'s here as I'm trying to slice the first four elements of the anonymous array that's being extracted out of the selectall_arrayref statement. So basically this is saving me the trouble of writing print Tr( td({'-align' => 'left'}, [ $_->[0],$_->[1],$_->[2],$_->[3] ] ) ); Lazy, am I? Yes. But there error I'm getting is most frustrating; this bit of code causes Perl to segfault every time. Is slicing a referent list verboten? What's the correct way to do this.

In reply to Slicing a reference? by drix

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