After three days of trying to track down an annoying bug, I finally traced it to this innocuous line, I stripped all the cruft out:

my @t = qw/aA bB cC dD eE fF gG hH iI jJ kK lL mMmM nN oO pP qQ rR sS 
+tT uU vV wW xX yY Zz/;
my $x = 0;
$x = length for @t[0 .. 1];
print $x;

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What the code is supposed to do is print out "4". Instead it prints out "2". Clearly there is something amiss here.

What I thought the code does is get a slice of @t, loop through the sliced elements in @t, get the length of each one and assign the sum to $x.

I've tweaked this portion of my code for three days and I can't seem to get it behaving right. Ironically, I've actually gotten similar (albeit more convoluted code) actually working in different language. So there is clearly some nuance I'm missing here.

In reply to length of string in array by SavannahLion

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