--- Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is the correct proceedure to check the number of elements in a > hash array, > when extracting elements like > $hash->{$key}->[0],$hash->{$key}->[1],.etc is > there way to determine the number of elements [ ] in the > $hash->{$key} if is > not known so each element can be displayed.
Arrays in scalar context return the number of elements in the array. Try this: my $num_elements = @{ $hash->{$key }; Cheers, Ovid -- If this message is a response to a question on a mailing list, please send follow up questions to the list. Web Programming with Perl -- http://users.easystreet.com/ovid/cgi_course/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>