On May 31, Jonathan E. Paton said: > --- Ned Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Snip >> >> I want to write to a file all of the array(@data), except the first >> field???? > >@data[1..-1] > >means the array @data from element 1 to the last element.
Sadly, Perl does not support that syntax. Ranges must be low..high. @foo[1..-1] doesn't work. However: shift @data; print @data; does. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]