#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
no warnings;

my (@firstkey, @numberofkeys);

my @list = qw /foo housekey blah carkey baz monkey/;

@firstkey     [0] = grep {/key$/} @list;
$numberofkeys [0] = grep {/key$/} @list;

print "@firstkey\n";
print "@numberofkeys\n";

__END__
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And yes, there are a million different ways to write this code, but that's not the point.

But I can't think of a case where using @array [0] in non-lvalue context could return something else than $array [0].

Abigail

In reply to Re: @array[1] is valid?? by Abigail-II
in thread @array[1] is valid?? by jdklueber

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