Fellow monks I come to you again for guidance.

I am stuck with a particular piece of Perl and have tried everything I can think of to solve the problem.

This is the test code I've been playing with: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$table={};

for $i (1..10){ $table{$i} = $i};

for $i (1..10){
               if ($i%2==0){$table{$i}{shape}='rect'}
               else {$table{$i}{shape}='circle'}
               $table{$i}{coords} = [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
               }

foreach $key ( keys %table ){
               print "Key $key Value $table{$key}\n";
               print "Shape $table{$key}{shape}\n";
               foreach(@{$table{$key}{coords}}){print "$table{$key}{co
+ords}[$_]"};
               print "\n";
               };

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My problem lies in the fact that I want to be able to take a slice of said array. I'd rather be able to do something along the lines of $table{$key}{coords}[0,3] for example to get just the first 4 elements of said array in the hash.

Is this only possible by running a loop over this array?

Thanks in advance!

In reply to Correct syntax to access an array slice within a hash within a hash by Popcorn Dave

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