SPUG: a split question . . .

[Matthew Lasar]

Dear Spuggers:

I have a question about a line of split script.

I am a beginning Perl person. I work at the University of California Press
in the IS department and I'm teaching myself Perl because it seems like it
will be useful for all sorts of things. I'm working my way through a book
called *SAMs Teach Yourself Perl in 24 Hours*. 

Let me assure you, 24 hours came and went quite a while ago.

Anyway, so here's this sample database program which starts with the
following lines of code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open(PH, "database.txt") or die "Cannot open database.txt: $!\n";
while(<PH>) {
	chomp;
	($number, $email)=(split(/\s+/, $_)) [1,2];

The book doesn't adequately explain the last piece of this script, the
"[1,2];" part. What is this for? Also, if I've got windows 95, what should
I really put after "#!"? That stuff looks like a unix path to me.

I am grateful for the existence of this list, and for any help you care to
offer.

cordially

Matthew Lasar

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