The easiest way to do that would probably be array slices: my @names = @input2arr[5 .. $#input2arr];

Barring that, that's not how map functions work. Map takes a list and performs an operation on each element, returning the result. You are thinking of it more as a foreach, which is not what it's intended for. If you really want to use map, you could use an iterator and return an empty list:

my $i = 1;
my @names = map {++$i > 6 ? $_ : () } @input2arr;
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or force it into a grep:

my $i = 1;
my @names = grep {++$i > 6} @input2arr;
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But neither of these is particularly transparent.