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

$#a = 4; # Sets the length of the array @a to four
print scalar(@a); # Prints how many elements are in the @a array.

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Remeber, arrays start with 0 as the first item.

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Re^2: I've never seen this before - $#a = 4 - ??
by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jun 26, 2002 at 18:39 UTC
    Unless of course, someone was a bad boy and played with $[

    Makeshifts last the longest.

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