Re: How to get scalar context of a list within a complex array
[email protected] ("Jeff Peng")
| Newsgroups | perl.beginners |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Christopher Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > This list can vary in size from element to element, so I would like a way to > refer to the list in scalar context to get its size. How do I do that? > Hi, since $fields[0]->{'_subfields'} is an anonymous array, you can derefer it by saying, @{ $fields[0]->{'_subfields'} }; So, scalar @{ $fields[0]->{'_subfields'} }; will get its length. -- Jeff Peng - [email protected] Professional Squid supports in China http://www.ChinaSquid.com/