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How do I specify an arbitrary subset of these to include in the print out?

I think you are asking how to extract an arbitrary list of fields from a larger array. In that case it is just:

use strict;
use warnings;

my @bigarray = qw/a b c d e f g h i j/;
my @subset = @bigarray[2, 5, 7];

print "@subset\n";

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Which means @subset will have just those three fields from @bigarray and the output will be "c f h".

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In reply to Re^7: reading a JSON object by hippo
in thread reading a JSON object by anautismobserver

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