in reply to Finding the length of an array of arrays

maybe this is what your looking for (recursive array counter) :) 
sub rscalar {
my($count);
  map { 
    $count++;
    if (ref eq "ARRAY") {
      $count = $count + rscalar(@{$_});
    }
  } @_;
  return $count;
}

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