Re^4: Printing the length of an array ?

That can be wrong for at least one very bad reason that you should be glad you don't know. This code is always correct, shorter, and less noisy:

my $count = @array;

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Re^5: Printing the length of an array ? by shmem (Chancellor) on Mar 30, 2008 at 22:08 UTC
That can be wrong for at least one very bad reason that you should be glad you don't know. That's so chromatic... and, of course, it does induce a post asking: what bad reason? --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply]
Re^6: Printing the length of an array ? by Not_a_Number (Prior) on Mar 30, 2008 at 22:38 UTC
what bad reason? `$[ = 42;`	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Printing the length of an array ? by wardy3 (Scribe) on Mar 31, 2008 at 04:39 UTC
oooooh, but i want to know	[reply]