[Classiccity-pm] perl curiosity..
Paul Keck
pkeck at uga.edu
Thu Aug 5 09:35:41 CDT 2004
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0400, Darrell Golliher wrote:
>
> So I'm reading someone elses code and come acrosse something like
> this..
>
> @things = qw(one two three);
> print $things[-1];
print $things[$#things];
which I find even uglier.
It wouldn't help in this case, but depending on the situation you could just
pop off the last element for some purpose, if the array were disposable.
$whatever = pop @things;
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