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);
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