Hello.  I'm not a new perl programmer, but I feel like one today.  I
want to pull the last octet off of an IP address and print it to
standard output.  I have this so far:

   @octets = split(/\./, $ipAddress);
   print pop(@octets);

Which works great.  I have no other use for @octets, so I should be able
to just pass the results of split() right to pop():

   print pop(split(/\./, $ipAddress));

However, I get the error message 

   Type of arg 1 to pop must be array (not split) at ./oct.pl line 
   8, near "))"

I realize I need to make sure the results of split() are an array before
they're passed to pop().  Fine.  However, 

   print pop(@{split(/\./, $ipAddress)});

prints nothing.  split() *does* return an array, right?  Why can't pop
take it?









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