Re: array slice syntax

2001-11-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 05:49:37PM +0100, Thomas Hofer wrote: > Hi! > > As a perl beginner, I have a silly question about > array-slices-syntax: > > That's clear: > > perl -e '@a=(a,b,c);print "@a[1..2]\n"' > ==> b c > > perl -e '@a=(a,b,c);print "$a[1]\n"' > ==> b > > But why does $array[ra

array slice syntax

2001-11-03 Thread Thomas Hofer
Hi! As a perl beginner, I have a silly question about array-slices-syntax: That's clear: perl -e '@a=(a,b,c);print "@a[1..2]\n"' ==> b c perl -e '@a=(a,b,c);print "$a[1]\n"' ==> b But why does $array[range] always give the first array-entry? perl -e '@a=(a,b,c);print "$a[1..2]\n"' ==> a (O