Array Assignment
You can also mix the variables on the right side and if there are arrays on the right side the whole thing becomes one flat array !
examples/perlarrays/assignment.pl
use strict; use warnings; my @x = ('foo', 'bar'); my @y = ('moose', 'barney'); my @z = (@x, @y); # ('foo', 'bar', 'moose', 'barney'); print "@z\n"; # foo bar moose barney my $owner = 'Moose'; my @tenants = qw(Foo Bar); my @people = ($owner, 'Baz', @tenants); # ('Moose', 'Baz', 'Foo', 'Bar') print "@people\n"; # Moose Baz Foo Bar
my ($x, @y, @z); ($x, @y) = f(); # where f() returns (1, 2, 3, 4); # $x is 1; @y is (2, 3, 4) ($x, @y, @z) = f(); # where f() returns (1, 2, 3, 4); # $x is 1; @y is (2, 3, 4) @z is empty: () @z = (); # Emptying an array