Hi all, I'm trying to split some data that has a series of related values in the middle. Ideally, I'd like to be able to split them right into their eventual home, which will be an array. I've come up with a toy script that hopefully demonstrates what I'd like 
use strict;
use warnings;

my $string = join('x', 'a'x20);

my (@foo, $foo);

(@foo[0..18], $foo) = split('x', $string);
print "Success!\n" if $foo eq "a";

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I thought that explicitly supplying the indicies for the array would help, but no dice. Is there some clever way to pull this off?

thor

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Update: It looks like I had an error in my test code, as most of you stated below. Just goes to show you that you can't trust yourself sometimes. Thanks for the help!

In reply to Is there any way to make an array non-greedy? by thor

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