--- Mike Blezien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what is the correct proceedure to check the number of elements in a
> hash array,
> when extracting elements like
> $hash->{$key}->[0],$hash->{$key}->[1],.etc is
> there way to determine the number of elements [ ] in the
> $hash->{$key} if is
> not known so each element can be displayed.
Arrays in scalar context return the number of elements in the array.
Try this:
my $num_elements = @{ $hash->{$key };
Cheers,
Ovid
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