in reply to Application just dies

I can't recall ever getting this before but the nature of the application I have the loops set up differently. If I were to have an array of 40 long (0-39) but used a loop from 0-50 what would happen normally if you try and access the 40 to 50th elements of the array? Normally I have the loop condition based on the max limit of the array. Thanks.

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Re^2: Application just dies
by almut (Canon) on Feb 27, 2009 at 20:37 UTC
    If I were to have an array of 40 long (0-39) but used a loop from 0-50 what would happen normally if you try and access the 40 to 50th elements of the array?

    With read access, you'd get an undef value, and with write access, the element at the respective index would be set to whatever you set it to (with automatic resizing of the array, under the hood).

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