Luckily in these cases, the faster answer is also the clearest answer in
either case.
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 5:32 PM Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:57:25PM +, Chas. Owens wrote:
> > $#array is the index of the last element of @array, so it will be one
> less
> > than scala
On Sun, Jan 28, 2018 at 10:57:25PM +, Chas. Owens wrote:
> $#array is the index of the last element of @array, so it will be one less
> than scalar @array which is the number of elements in @array (since Perl
> arrays start with index 0). Therefore, to get the number of elements, you
> would ne
$#array is the index of the last element of @array, so it will be one less
than scalar @array which is the number of elements in @array (since Perl
arrays start with index 0). Therefore, to get the number of elements, you
would need to add one to $#array, which makes scalar @array faster. To get
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