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 can assign to (undef).

(undef, my $id) = split(/=/, $fields[1]);

You can even use my (undef).

my (undef, $id) = split(/=/, $fields[1]);

You could also use a list slice.

my $id = ( split(/=/, $fields[1]) )[1];