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Or one could, as toolic suggests, actually look at perldata and search for the string '$#', which yields

The length of an array is a scalar value. You may find the length of
array @days by evaluating $#days, as in csh. However, this isn't the
length of the array; it's the subscript of the last element ...
as the second hit, followed by a few more informative paragraphs.


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Re^4: strange syntax (more ways to search for and find docs, grep.cpan.me)
by Anonymous Monk on Jun 17, 2015 at 07:46 UTC

    Or one could, as toolic suggests, actually look at perldata and search for the string '$#', which yields

    Hmm, an exercise in using available search methods ... to see the available ways one could stumble upon the same information toolic offered ... you understand this is what I presented right ? A different path to the information toolic presented?