Hi Monks!
In my code a have this foreach loop that calls a sub routine to check names in the database, that's ok, but my problem is that I need to capture how many names was actually passed to this sub since the call happens one at a time. Lets say that this arrays @names has 100 elements, but only a certain number of elements qualify to be passed to the check_names sub. I hope I am making myself clear.
Here is a sample code to illustrate what I am trying to say:
...
foreach my $name (@names) {

            # Skip if it doesn't contain data.
            next unless $name; 

            check_names($name);
}
...

sub check_names {

  my(@names) = @_;    

 my $how_many_names_total = @names;
 print "$how_many_names_total";
      
}
...

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In reply to Counting in loop help! by Anonymous Monk

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