Re^2: Is there any way to make an array non-greedy?

If my real problem were as easy as my toy script, I'd certainly follow one of your above solutions. However, it's more like this:

my (
      $field1,
      $field2,
      #...
      $field25,
      @field26[0..25],
      $field27,
      $field28,
      #...
   ) = split(/\|/);
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This way, it makes it obvious that I'm grabbing a fixed number from the split return. I appreciate the terseness in your solutions, though. Now that I know that it was a problem with my test data and not my approach, I'll be using something like what I originally posted.

thor

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Re^3: Is there any way to make an array non-greedy? by duff (Parson) on Oct 15, 2005 at 03:56 UTC
I think you're after something like this: `@important_fields = (split /\\|/, $string)[25..50];` [download] duff	[reply] [d/l]