Does anyone knows why $#a one less than the actually number of elements in an array?
$ perl -we '@a=(1,2);print $#a'
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Does anyone knows why $#a one less than the actually number of elements in
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Does anyone knows why $#a one less than the actually number of elements in an array?
$ perl -we '@a=(1,2);print $#a'
1
That’s the index of the last item and since arrays start at zero (unless you’re messing around with things that are better left alone),
$#ais one less than the length of the array.