On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Hamish Whittal wrote:

> I want the length of the array. normally just getting the length one
> would write something along the lines of:
>       $length = @#array; # Unless I am mistaken.

That's the incorrect way to get the length of the array anyway -- you are
only getting the index of the last element.  If you put the array into a
scalar context, you get the length:

my $length = @array;

> How do I find the length if I have a reference?

my $length = @{$arrayref};

-- Brett
                                          http://www.chapelperilous.net/
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