> Is there a way to "peek" at the top or bottom of an array? for the first element you could "peek" like: $first = $array[0];
for the last element you could "peek" like: $last = $array[$#array]; $# indexes the last element of the array. just make sure you use the same array's name in the index after $# - Amit "Dan Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Is there a way to "peek" at the top or bottom of an array? Sort of like > pop or shift but without needing to insert the value back into the > array? > > I suppose I could do something like: > > my $check_me = pop @array; > push @array, $check_me; > > But that seems kind of inelegant and verbose. > > Thanks, > > Dan >
