in reply to Re: How to cut strings from the end
in thread How to cut strings from the end

Could you explain how this works? I was trying these days to dismiss the first element of an anonymous list, then I got this code: 

(undef, @list) = split /\s+/, $str;

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I was wondering if something like that could work, but it doesn't: 
@list = (split /\s+/, $str)[1..$#a];

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Thanks in advance.

Igor 'izut' Sutton
your code, your rules.

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Re^3: How to cut strings from the end
by japhy (Canon) on May 30, 2006 at 14:05 UTC
    His code assumes @a is empty, which means $#a returns -1, so he's doing (...)[-1 - 2 .. -1] which is just (...)[-3 .. -1]. Your case cannot be handled in a similar manner -- you'd need to know the size of the list being returned by split(). Your first approach is fine.
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