Perl Style: Negative Array Subscripts

  • To get the last element in a list or array, use $array[-1] instead of $array[$#array]. The former works on both lists and arrays, but the latter does not.
  • Remember that substr, index, rindex, and splice also accept negative subscripts to count back from the end.

        split(@array, -2);   # pop twice
    
  • Remember substr is lvaluable:

        substr($s, -10) =~ s/ /./g;
    

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