NAME

List::Slice - Slice-like operations on lists

VERSION

version 0.003

STATUS

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.