I was working with a long array recently and noticed that when I went to print out the entire array, that a regular print statement doesn't force the array into scalar context but when concatenating it within a print statement, the array gets forced into scalar context thus giving me the number of elements in the array. Is this intentional? If so (which it must be), is there a way to "cast" @x to be an array and not be forced into scalar context when its being concatenated? (Assuming that is what is actually going on). Thanks. 
use strict;
use warnings;

my @x;
push @x, "this";
push @x, "that";

print "This is \@x:\n";
print @x;

print "\n\nThis is \@x\\n:\n";
print @x ."\n";

__OUTPUT__

This is @x:
thisthat

This is @x\n:
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In reply to Printing Arrays in Scalar Context by madbombX

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