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Perl Programming/Keywords/unshift

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The unshift keyword

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unshift does the opposite of shift. It prepends list to the front of the array and returns the new number of elements in the array.

Syntax

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  unshift ARRAY, LIST
  unshift EXPRESSION, LIST

Example

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unshift(@ARGV, '-e') unless $ARGV[0] =~ /^-/;

See also

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