Re: Arg... what about $#hash $#array

2002-09-20 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Sudarshan Raghavan wrote: > my $hashcnt = keys(%hash) + values(%hash); Bad! my $hashcnt = keys(%hash) * 2; should do -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Arg... what about $#hash $#array

2002-09-20 Thread Sudarshan Raghavan
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Angerstein wrote: > I noticed if I want to print out the number of elements which should be > stored in $#hash, > but if i print it out i just get -1 !! $#array (assuming the variable array is a perl array) will give you the last index of @array. For number of elements my $

RE: Arg... what about $#hash $#array

2002-09-20 Thread nkuipers
>scalar (@array); >scalar (%hash); > >can be used to get the number of elements. For arrays, yes. For hashes, no. scalar %hash produces something that looks like this: 3/8, which is some measure of the number of buckets used by the hashing algo (efficiency). print scalar keys %hash, "\n"; w

AW: Arg... what about $#hash $#array

2002-09-20 Thread Angerstein
ok... scalar (@array); scalar (%hash); can be used to get the number of elements. > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Angerstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet am: Freitag, 20. September 2002 11:12 > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Arg... what about $#hash $#arra

Arg... what about $#hash $#array

2002-09-20 Thread Angerstein
I noticed if I want to print out the number of elements which should be stored in $#hash, but if i print it out i just get -1 !! What else can i do??? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]