It isn't the easiest to understand, but that's very nice outside the box thinking!

Update: minor niggles: use $#a since that's what you mean — and please, please, use better variable names.

my @list = ( 41888, 41889, 41890, 41892, 41895 );
my @missing = map { ( $list[ $_ - 1 ] + 1 ) .. ( $list[ $_ ] - 1 ) } 1
+ .. $#list;
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(Twelve years later - directed here by a post on Stack Overflow.)

I'm not convinced that @list is much of an improvement over @a as a name for an array :-)

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I'm not convinced that @list is much of an improvement over @a as a name for an array :-)

Thats a terrible unconviction :P

@list is much times better than @array ... @a for short...

because the question talks about a list of numbers, the @list ... and the @ tells us its array

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