I've used perl's array slices as @array[@indices] in the past. Can't remember why, but I have. It also works for hashes: %hash = (foo => "bar", one => "t

I've used perl's array slices as @array[@indices] in the past. Can't remember why, but I have. It also works for hashes: %hash = (foo => "bar", one => "two", alpha => "beta"); @keys = ('alpha', 'one'); @hash{@keys} == ('beta', 'two');