Hi fellow monks.. ;).

Sorry to disturb you from your daily routines (hacking? ;J), but I can't seem to figure this out. What evil do special characters inflict on Perl arrays? Basically, I have pushed a piece of text containing special (control) characters '\cJ ...' and when I check on last array index via '$#' i get 10 whereas it should be 1 (since I know i added just that one string).

Here's a 'screenshot' from command line perl debugger: 
CFML::Parser::TAG::Container::owner_of(/export/home/vlad/scratch/LIB/C
+FML/Parser.pm:792):
792:                      $self->{op_stack}[++$#self->{op_stack}] = $t
+hing;
  DB<1> x $self->{op_stack}
0  ARRAY(0x3f513c)
   0  "\cJ\cI "
  DB<2> x $#self->{op_stack}
0  10
  DB<3>

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Why does it show 10 there when i do $#self->{op_stack}.? Should it not display '0' since that's the last index of the array as seen in earlier dump of that array via 'x' command?

Thank you. </code>

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In reply to Special characters in array by vladb

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