MasterGremlin,
Someone will likely beat me to the punch, but what you want to do is treat the split anonymously. You can then get the index you want and throw away the rest. 
print ((split ',' , $foo)[2]));
print "\n";

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That just looks nasty. I use this quite a bit when using stat and am only interested in say the file size, but then I am assigning it to a single scalar $size as merlyn shows, which eliminates the need for the second set of parens.

Cheers - Limbic~Region
Update Added parens to get it to work.

In reply to Re: Retrieve only what I need from split without using temp array by Limbic~Region
in thread Retrieve only what I need from split without using temp array by MasterGremlin

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