I have an array and I would like to print the last few elements (most recent) to the screen. I have put together the following code to make this happen:

    open (FILE, "$record") or die 'can\'t open record page: $!';
    my @record =<FILE>;
    close FILE;
    
    my @record = reverse @record;
    
    my @record1 = ($record[0], $record[1], $record[2], $record[3], $re
+cord[4], $record[5], $record[6], $record[7], $record[8], $record[9]);
+ 
    
    my $record1 = join "<br>", @record1;
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($record1 is then used in conjunction with HTML::Template.)

This is obviously not very perl so I thought I'd get some input from anyone kind enough to help me as to the alternatives I might have used to do the same thing.

One of the things I did try was the following:

@record = reverse @record;
    
my @record1;
my $count = 0;
    
while (($count < 5) && (my $line = @record)) {
    push (@record1, $line);
    $count += 1;
    }
print "@record1";
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This produced some very odd results so it's obvious that just as in the "Hitchhiker's Guide" I don't understand the question I asked! If someone does and could explain, that would be great.

Thanks very much.

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