Perhaps this is a newbie question, but please be kind. I'm a newbie.

Given the following code: 

my @array = qw/zero one two three/;
print @array, $/;
print "@array\n";
print "${@array}\n";

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I get the following output: 
14:38:57 ~/perl/source $ perl -w array
zeroonetwothree
zero one two three

14:38:59 ~/perl/source $

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Without resorting to something akin to the following: 
my @array = qw/zero one two three/;
my $n = scalar @array;
print "$n\n";

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...which upon output yields: 
14:44:42 ~/perl/source $ perl -w array
4
14:44:49 ~/perl/source $

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How can I modify the interpolated string such that the element count of the list/array is substituted instead of the array contents?

Thanks.

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