Question

I’m looking for a one-liner that lets me grab the second return value from a subroutine.

Rather than this:

($a,$b)=function;
print $b

It should be possible to do something like this

print ??? function

Answer 1

This works:

sub test { return (1,2) }
print ((test)[1]);  # Returns 2

This also works:

print +(func())[1], "\n";