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Array Operations and Slices

Array Operations and Slices

Learn about array operations and array slices in Perl.

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Array operations

Sometimes, an array is more convenient as an ordered, mutable collection of items than as a mapping of indices to values. Perl provides several operations to manipulate array elements.

The push and pop operators

The push and pop operators add and remove elements, respectively, from the tail of an array:

Perl
my @meals;
# what is there to eat?
push @meals, qw( hamburgers pizza lasagna turnip );
say "@meals";
# ... but your nephew hates vegetables
pop @meals;
say "@meals";

We may push a list of values onto an array, but we can only pop one at a time. push returns the new number of elements in the array. ...