You can get the index of the last element of the array by:

$#arrayname
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Which can be used like this:

my $i;
for ($i = 0; $i <= $#arrayname; $i++) {
#do something
}
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And getting the total number of elements is as easy as:

my @stooges = qw(Larry Moe Curly);
print scalar(@stooges), " Stooges!\n";
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J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/