in reply to perl equivalent to php array count function

In Perl, the array itself in scalar context gives the number of elements: 

my @foo = qw/foo bar baz/;
my $foocount = @foo;
print $foocount, $/;
print scalar(@foo), $/;

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No function necessary.

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Zaxo

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