in reply to RE: Cropping Elements in an Array
in thread Cropping Elements in an Array

Go one step further: 
for (@yourarray) {
    my @ary = (split/ /, $_, 5)[0 .. 4];
}

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or even the also untested:

@yourarray = map { join(" ", (split(/ /, $_))[0 .. 4]) } @yourarray;

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RE: RE: RE: Cropping Elements in an Array
by agoth (Chaplain) on Nov 02, 2000 at 21:40 UTC

    I was trying to avoid the slice of the first few, I don't know why ;-), I fancied lopping two items off the end.
    too lazy to use splice...... 
    splice(@ary, -2);

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