Re: I've never seen this before - $#a = 4

in reply to I've never seen this before - $#a = 4 - ??

Assigning to $#a is a seldom-used way of truncating the array @a. $#a = 4; arranges for the final index of @a to be 4. Hence, @a will hold 5 elements.

I find that using a slice makes the code more readable. @a = @a[0..4];

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•Re: Re: I've never seen this before - $#a = 4 - ?? by merlyn (Sage) on Jun 26, 2002 at 18:14 UTC
I find that using a slice makes the code more readable. But not as efficient as: `splice @a, 5;` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply] [d/l]

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