in reply to Re: nested for loop with assumed scalars
in thread nested for loop with assumed scalars

I don't understand what do you mean by "problems with $#array". It would still be the index of the last item as defined:

$[ = 3; @a = (1,2,3,4,5); print $a[$#a];
but of course I agree it's not a good idea to fiddle with $[.

Jenda
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