in reply to Re^2: merging arrays
in thread merging arrays

That's exactly the expected behaviour. You loop from $a..$n. So you get some value for $a..$n :)
If you don't want the undefined values, grep for the defined ones: 
my @saved_images = grep { defined $_ } @found_images[0 .. $pics_to_fin
+d - 1];

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