Re: Array Processing

There is little need to use for, while, or recursion to delete all elements of @a. We could instead use the undef operator:

my @a= (1..5) ;
undef @a;
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And since the range operator is evaluated in array context, we could also drop the parens:

my @a = 1..5;
undef @a;
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Re^2: Array Processing by EvanCarroll (Chaplain) on Oct 09, 2005 at 17:35 UTC
Same Effect: `perl -le'@_=1..5;undef @_;print scalar@_;' 0 perl -le'@_=1..5;@_=();print scalar@_;' 0` [download] Evan Carroll www.EvanCarroll.com	[reply] [d/l]