in reply to What's the neatest way to extract two items from an array returned by a function?

Use undef:

my (undef, undef, $uid,$pid) = getpwnam("nobody");

but I prefer the slice, anyway:)

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Re^2: What's the neatest way to extract two items from an array returned by a function?
by cjk32 (Novice) on Aug 24, 2007 at 15:44 UTC
    Thanks, now that you mention it, the slice probably is neater anyway.