Win8 Strawberry 5.8.9.5 (32) Fri 08/05/2022 17:16:08 C:\@Work\Perl\monks >perl use strict; use warnings; my $arrayref = [ ]; # ref. to zero length array print "$arrayref \n"; print "length non-zero \n" if length $arrayref > 1; ^Z ARRAY(0x613824) length non-zero