On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Tech list <tech_list@womenshealth.com>
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> what is the correct way to get the number of items in an array?
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> I used to use $#array
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$#array is the index of the last item, so the number should be $#array + 1,
or
scalar @array