Perl: Array Element Access
Array Element Access
To access a specific element of an array, you use a subscript - the number of the element in brackets: $my_array[n]
Since this is a scalar, it's prefixed by $
The array index starts at 0, not 1
@flintstones = ("fred","wilma","barney","betty");
print $flintstones[1]; # "wilma"
$flintstones[3] = "dino"; # "betty" is replaced by "dino"
$flintstones[4] = "betty";# "betty" gets added after "dino"
# array now has 5 elements - last index is 4