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Re: How do I find the size of an array?

by mattr (Curate)
on Sep 03, 2005 at 15:36 UTC ( [id://488932]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I find the size of an array?

I never like to hear the words "size of" since it is not the sizeof that a C programmer will want.

Also I am embarassed to say that I do not know or maybe have forgotten when it is that scalar @array -1 != $#array. For example an array with a single element at index 5 will give the same results for both. Or are we talking about some kind of pruning?

That said I hate evaluating arrays as a scalar anyway since I expect something bad could happen (tm). Probably the important information I promptly forgot was distilled to this inchoate fear. Say it isn't so!

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