>> I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th to >> last in a variable length array. I thought I could just do: >> >> @comments[0..-4] >> >> but Perl seems to choke on this. It's perfectly okay with a slice using two >> negative #s: >> >> @comments[-2..-4] >> >> Anyone know why it doesn't like 0..-4? > > The first number HAS to be less then the second number so @array[-4..4] > and @array[-10..-4] are valid but @comments[0..-4] and @comments[-2..-4] > are not. For your original question use: > > @comments[0..$#comments-4]
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