Add "use strict;" to the top of your script. Next, your snippet seems ill-suited to the task you describe. I would look at doing something like: 
use strict;

my ($first, $last) = @ARGV; # Pass the values in

my @nums = 1 .. 100;

my $inside = 0;
my @inside_nums;
foreach my $num (@nums)
{
    if ($num == $first)
    {
        $inside = 1;
    }

    if ($inside)
    {
        push @inside, $num;
    }

    if ($num == $last)
    {
        $inside = 0;
    }
}

print "@inside\n";

#### for-loop could also be written as:
my $inside;
foreach my $num (@nums)
{
    $inside = 1
        if $num == $first;
    push @inside_nums, $num
        if $inside;
    $inside = 0
        if $num == $last;
}

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In reply to Re: Extracting numbers from arrays by dragonchild
in thread Extracting numbers from arrays by Anonymous Monk

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