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Afternoon fellow monks,

I've only just started learning Perl and have been a little stumped with the following,i know perl has lots of nifty shortcuts but is this possible...

given a function, (the one i've been using is split) that returns an array is it possible to only return the first element of the array from the function and assign that to a scalar...

i.e

$bar = "some.text";
$foo = split(/\./,$bar);

now i know i could make $foo an array like @foo and access the first element of that.
But is there something i can do with the function on the right to return the first element of the array directly to $foo...

thanks
-Li

In reply to Returning first element of an array from a function by lcanty

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