Re^2: Return Value of List-Producing Elements in Scalar Context

Normally, $a = ( ...list... ); will store the number of elements in the list in $a.

Did you test that before you wrote it?

$ perl -le '$a = (3, 4, 5); print $a'
5
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I think you're confusing lists and arrays.

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Re^3: Return Value of List-Producing Elements in Scalar Context by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 23, 2004 at 15:43 UTC
I did test it, but the last element of the list was the number of elements in the list... Fixed my original post.	[reply]