Perl assignment with a dummy placeholder

Question

In other languages I\'ve used like Erlang and Python, if I am splitting a string and don\'t care about one of the fields, I can use an underscore placeholder. I tried this

Answer 1

You don't even need placeholders if you use Slices:

use warnings;
use strict;

my ($id) = (split /=/, 'foo=id123')[1];
print "$id\n";

__END__

id123