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Postings from September 2000
Bart Lateur writes: > Indeed. What about lists? > > print length(qw(a b c)); > > Should this return 3? It prints what this would print: $x = qw(a b c); print length $x; The parser will check the first character of length's argument. If it's an @ sign, then it calculates the length of the array that is the argument (and there should be only one argument--no commas). Nat