in reply to Re: array testing
in thread array testing

You should only use defined on scalars.
perldoc -f defined says:
Use of "defined" on aggregates (hashes and arrays) is deprecated. It used to report whether memory for that aggregate has ever been allocated. This behavior may disappear in future versions of Perl. You should instead use a simple test for size:
if (@an_array) { print "has array elements\n" } if (%a_hash) { print "has hash members\n" }