in reply to Re: Found a Perl hole
in thread Found a Perl hole

Just a few comments

@types[++$#types] = chr $temp;

this can be written: 

  push(@types, chr $temp);

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@types is an array. So @types[2] is an array slice with one item. Perhaps you're trying to access the third element of the array? In which case you would access that item using $types[2]

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