in reply to Test for the last element in a foreach

This seems the simplest/cleanest to me: 
my $LastSubCat;

foreach my $subcat ($category->children) { 
      $LastSubCat = $subcat;
      # Code to use $subcat 
}

# $LastSubCat now contains the value of the last element

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