Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> writes: > why would you expect anything but 1 as the value? shift will return 1 > value or undef. that anon array will be dereferenced to an array with > 1 entry. the array is in scalar context which returns its > size. elementary! ^ my dear Watson.
Thank you Mr Uri (The Snot) Guttman, for the usual helpful but snotty response. I do appreciate it. That de-referencing bit was news to me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/