>>>>> "DJ" == David Jacopille <p...@shortloop.com> writes:
DJ> To get highest index number on an array you use:
DJ> $#array
DJ> Doing this on an arrayref:
DJ> $#{arrayref}
that is a bareword and not an array ref. so perl is parsing $# as the
deprecated builtin variable
DJ> I get a warning "$# is no longer supported". The program does
DJ> continue.
DJ> Apparently $# and $* were deprecated in regular expression context
DJ> and that error message exactly is documented in CPAN.
these work fine:
perl -lwe '$x = [1,2]; print $#$x'
1
perl -lwe '$x = [1,2]; print $#{$x}'
1
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