#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Alias;
use Data::Dump qw[dd];

my @A = (1,2,3,4,5,7,21,55,66);
dd @A;

alias my @B = @A[2..4];
dd @B;

$B[0] = 0;
dd @B;
dd @A;

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output: 
+% ~/test/alias.pl 
(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 21, 55, 66)
(3, 4, 5)
(0, 4, 5)
(1, 2, 0, 4, 5, 7, 21, 55, 66)

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In reply to Re: how to alias a subset of an array by Arunbear
in thread how to alias a subset of an array by Anonymous Monk

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