Perl Programming/Keywords/unshift

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The `unshift` keyword

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

  unshift ARRAY, LIST
  unshift EXPRESSION, LIST

Example

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

See also

shift

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