Hi,
Obviously, the one you gave is 'a way' to do it... but there is more than one. The following is the one I use: 

my @a = (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9);
my $pos = 3;
my $new_elem = 100;
$" = ", ";
print "Before: (@a)\n";
@a = (@a[0..$pos-1],$new_elem,@a[$pos..$#a]);
print "After: (@a)\n";

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I'm sorry that I haven't the time now to benchmark these solutions...

I hope this serves to help you.

Cheers

Leo TheHobbit

In reply to Re: adding to the middle of a array by TheHobbit
in thread adding to the middle of a array by stu96art

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