>> 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]
>
"Rob Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi Bryan
>
> "Bryan Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> >
> > I need to slice an array such that it gives me the first through the 4th
> to
> > last in a variable
Bryan Harris wrote:
>
> 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:
>
> @commen
