How do find the length of an array in perl?

[cham3l3on35]

I'm just learning perl, and i need to find a way to check to see if i'm at the last element in my array... how would i go about this?

[mdharrold]

scalar(@array) gives you the number of elements in the array.
Is that what you were wanted?

[Brett_Tabke]

you can also do $#array.

$thelength =$#array;

That comes out as array-1 (counting zero).

I know that really breaks from perls standard syntax with the # char, but that's the way they do it.

[scotty]

> you can also do $#array... <snip>

That's probably coming from the bourn shell "heritage" where you look at the number of arguments using $#... Wait until Perl 6 comes out, and then everything will be different again. :(

[Brett_Tabke]

you don't always have to use "scalar" you can do just

$t=@foo;