Re: Number of elements in array

If you want to get the number of rows in a database table, the most efficient way would be to let the database count them:

  ...prepare ("Select COUNT(*) FROM TABLE_OR_QUERY");
   # TABLE_OR_QUERY can be another (SELECT...) statement
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Most databases will optimize queries, so you can do the count query, then do the data query as 2 separate queries.

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Re^2: Number of elements in array by tobyink (Canon) on Sep 24, 2012 at 14:03 UTC
This counts the number of rows. The OP was counting the number of columns. Of course, it's possible that the OP did actually want the number of rows... `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]