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... the  = "" portion isn't required for empty array

... and, indeed, causes the creation of a non-empty array; let's be very clear about that!

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Re^3: perl question
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 08, 2011 at 14:13 UTC

    ... and, indeed, causes the creation of a non-empty array; let's be very clear about that!

    Not only is it non-empty, its initialized to the empty string  push @array, "";