hackmare, the problem is with your regexp. Check out the following demo, you actually got whole bunch of "" in your array. 
use strict;

my $str = "abc\t\t\t\t\thij\t\t\t\t\t";
my @a = split("\t", $str, 99999);
for (0..$#a) {
    if (defined($a[$_])) {
        print "element $_ is $a[$_]\n";
    } else {
        print "element $_ is undef\n";
    }
}
print $#a; #print out 10

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Change your regexp to something like: 
split(/\t+/, $str, 99999);

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should help you. After the change, it prints out 2. (There is still one empty string at the end, but now much easy to handle)

In reply to Re: find real length of an array by pg
in thread find real length of an array by Anonymous Monk

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