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Accessing Array Elements in Perl
When accessing individual elements from an array in Perl, you must prefix the variable with a dollar sign ($) and then append the element index within the square brackets after the name of the variable. For example −
Example
#!/usr/bin/perl @days = qw/Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun/; print "$days[0]\n"; print "$days[1]\n"; print "$days[2]\n"; print "$days[6]\n"; print "$days[-1]\n"; print "$days[-7]\n";
Output
This will produce the following result −
Mon Tue Wed Sun Sun Mon
Array indices start from zero, so to access the first element you need to give 0 as indices. You can also give a negative index, in which case you select the element from the end, rather than the beginning, of the array. This means the following −
print $days[-1]; # outputs Sun print $days[-7]; # outputs Mon
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