Re: No more than N element of an array

From	Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.perl.misc
Subject	Re: No more than N element of an array
Date	2013-07-25 16:38 +0100
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tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) writes:
> A cow-orker is coding something: he gets an array of results, but
> wants to take no more than the first 1000 elements.  His suggestion was
>
> @results = @results[0 .. (MAXSEARCHRESULTS - 1, $#results)[MAXSEARCHRESULTS - 1 > $#results ]];
>
> He felt it was "awesome".  I thought it was way too cute.

I suggest 'awful' instead:

$#results = MAXSEARCHRESULTS - 1 unless $#results < MAXSEARCHRESULTS;

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No more than N element of an array tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-25 15:29 +0000
  Re: No more than N element of an array Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-25 16:38 +0100
    Re: No more than N element of an array Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-25 16:44 +0100
  Re: No more than N element of an array Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-26 05:12 +0100
    Re: No more than N element of an array Charles DeRykus <derykus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-25 23:08 -0700
      Re: No more than N element of an array Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-26 09:00 +0100
        Re: No more than N element of an array Charles DeRykus <derykus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-26 02:19 -0700
          Re: No more than N element of an array "Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-usenet3@hjp.at> - 2013-07-26 11:32 +0200
            Re: No more than N element of an array Charles DeRykus <derykus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-26 03:38 -0700
          Re: No more than N element of an array Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-26 11:26 +0100
          Re: No more than N element of an array tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-26 14:27 +0000
            min (), and Perl modules Ivan Shmakov <oneingray@gmail.com> - 2013-07-26 15:16 +0000
              Re: min (), and Perl modules tmcd@panix.com (Tim McDaniel) - 2013-07-26 16:17 +0000
            Re: No more than N element of an array Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-26 16:39 +0100
        Re: No more than N element of an array Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-26 16:38 +0100
          Re: No more than N element of an array Ben Morrow <ben@morrow.me.uk> - 2013-07-26 19:23 +0100
            Re: No more than N element of an array Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2013-07-30 17:52 +0100
              Re: No more than N element of an array Charles DeRykus <derykus@gmail.com> - 2013-07-30 22:10 -0700

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