Bug#722636: mention how to use $# sigil with array references
jidanni at jidanni.org
jidanni at jidanni.org
Fri Sep 13 00:23:13 UTC 2013
Package: perl-doc
Version: 5.18.1-4
Severity: wishlist
File: /usr/share/man/man1/perlref.1.gz
man perlref is missing critical mention of how to combine $$ and $#:
$ perl -lwe 'use strict; my @m=1..11; my $arrayref = \@m; print $#m; print $#$arrayref'
10
10
By the way, curious as to where $# itself is documented, on man perlvar we see
...not the sigil you use in front of an array name to get
the last index, like $#array. That's still how you get the
last index of an array in Perl...
but apparently no better mention in all of the perl man pages.
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