Re: offtopic: perl question about dialog.pl

[Mario Olimpio de Menezes <mario@curiango.ipen.br>]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote:

> For a count of elements in an array
> 
> $count = $#array;
           ^^^^^^^^^
this is the subscript of the last element in array, one less than
the length, since there is a 0th element;

$count++;  # number of elements in array @array;

you could also do:

$count = scalar(@array);

[]s,
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