in reply to Re: Is $# still used?
in thread Is $# still used?

You're thinking of the "last index" construct. ghenry is talking about the output numeric format $#. It's a sprintf-style format which perl uses for stringifying numbers.

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Re^3: Is $# still used?
by gaal (Parson) on Jun 11, 2005 at 13:27 UTC
    Ah! I'm much less surprised now. In Perl, "there's something more" happens more often than "there's something less". :-)
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