What is the shortest way of getting the last N items of an array?

Question

I wrote

array = linspace(0, 1);
sliceSize = 10;
sliceBegin = 1 + length(array) - sliceSize;
slice = array(sliceBegin: length(array));

that's too verbose. How to make it shorter?

Answer 1

a = rand(100,1);    %# vector
a(end-5+1:end)      %# last five elements