Question

I would like to only capture part of a list output by a function in Perl.

I thought something alone these lines would do it, but they don’t.

E.g. Capturing the last element of the list:

(, $my_var)  = split(/_/,$sample_string); 

E.g. Capturing the second element of the list:

(, $my_var, , ,)  = split(/_/,$sample_string);

Is this possible in Perl?

Answer 1

Second element of the return array:

my $second_element = (split(/_/,$sample_string))[1];