Slice arrays in Perl

Question

I know there are easier ways to do this, but I must demonstrate removing the first seven lines of a system call (top -bn1) and write the results to a file using array slices. I currently am having trouble with the syntax of removing the seven lines, and I'm not sure how to write it to a file.

my @top_command = `top -bn1`;

@top_command = @top_command(7..@top_command); 

print @top_command, $file_name;

Answer 1

1. Array indexes are made with square brackets ([]), not parentheses.
2. You can get the highest index of an array called @array with $#array.
3. I can't even tell what you're trying to do in your third line, but you probably want to look up the splice operator.

That should be enough to complete your assignment.