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Re: Is using $#array Frowned on?by shmem (Chancellor) |
| on Feb 13, 2014 at 20:54 UTC ( [id://1074893]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
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The special variable $# (see perlvar), which got deprecated and is not longer supported, has nothing to do with the $#array expression which denotes the last index of @array. It might well be that $# got deprecated because of such confusions...
perl -le'print map{pack c,($-++?1:13)+ord}split//,ESEL'
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