NAME

List::Slice - Slice-like operations on lists

VERSION

version 0.003

SYNOPSIS

            

              
              
use List::Slice qw( head tail );
            
          

DESCRIPTION

This module provides functions for slicing lists. This is helpful when you want to do a chain of manipulations on a list (map, grep, sort) and then slice, without the cumbersome (...)[x] syntax.

FUNCTIONS

head

            

              
              
my @values = head $size, @list;
            
          

Returns the first $size elements from @list. If $size is negative, returns all but the last $size elements from @list.

            

              
              
@result = head 2, qw( foo bar baz );
# foo, bar
@result = head -2, qw( foo bar baz );
# foo
            
          

tail

            

              
              
my @values = tail $size, @list;
            
          

Returns the last $size elements from @list. If $size is negative, returns all but the first $size elements from @list.

            

              
              
@result = tail 2, qw( foo bar baz );
# bar, baz
@result = tail -2, qw( foo bar baz );
# baz
            
          

SEE ALSO

List::Util, List::MoreUtils, List::UtilsBy

AUTHOR

Doug Bell <preaction@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by Doug Bell.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.