How to skip first element in array with foreach?

Question

Say I have an array:

my @arr = (1,2,3,4,5);

Now I can iterate it via foreach:

foreach ( @arr ) {
    print $_;
}

But is there a way to iterate from second (for example) to last elemnt?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Just shift off the first element before you go looping.

my @arr = ( 1..5 );
shift @arr; # Remove the first element and throw it away

foreach ( @arr ) {
    print "$_\n";
}

Answer 2

This is perl. There are more than one way to do it, always. Such as an array slice:

for (@arr[1 .. $#arr])   # for and foreach are exactly the same in perl

You can use shift as Andy Lester suggested, however this will of course alter your original array.