PERL Beginners - Re: confusion with splitting columns using [-n, -n] (e.g; my ( $country, $bytes ) = (

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Re: confusion with splitting columns using [-n, -n] (e.g; my ( $country, $bytes ) = (

jeevs

2007-01-30, 3:58 am

On Jan 30, 1:21 pm, "jeevs" <jeevan.ing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> -2 and -1 are the indexes used by split which tells -1 is the last
> column selected by split in your case its the bytes column. and -2 is
> the country column.

To add more the syntax used that is
(split)[-1,-2];

is nothing more than split used like

@arr = split (//,$string) ;
and then later
accessing array with indexes i.e @arr[-1,-2];

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