Hi, A little problem I encountered recently.
I have an array of integers and two indexes within that array. I need to get another array identical to the first one, except that all cells between the two indexes (inclusive) must be compressed to one column which is the sum of the originals cells. A program will illustrate below. What I'm looking for is just a way to do the same thing more elegantly. It has nested loops using the same index variable and a duplicated test, which are both a little ugly. #!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; my @array = qw{ 10 20 30 40 50 }; my $start = 1; my $end = 3; my @out; for( my $i = 0; $i < @array; $i++) { my $j; for( ; $i >= $start && $i <= $end; $i++) { $j += $array[$i]; if( $i == $end ) { push @out, $j; } } push @out, $array[$i]; } $\="\n"; print for @out; The expected out is: 10 90 50 The second line contains the sum of elements 1, 2 and 3. Thanks for any input, -- JR -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/