The number of elements in an array

2003-01-16 Thread Robert Monical
Hello, I'm away from my Perl book and hope one of you will help me. Would somebody please remind me how to make this line work for ($x=0;$x$#{@amen};$x++){ right now, the loop only executes once. TIA Robert Monical [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailing list stuff) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (everything

Re: The number of elements in an array

2003-01-16 Thread Victor Tsang
for ($x=0; $x scalar(@amen); $x++) Tor. Robert Monical wrote: Hello, I'm away from my Perl book and hope one of you will help me. Would somebody please remind me how to make this line work for ($x=0;$x$#{@amen};$x++){ right now, the loop only executes once. TIA

Re: The number of elements in an array

2003-01-16 Thread John W. Krahn
of elements in the array so you probably want: for ( my $x = 0; $x @amen; $x++ ) { Or the more Perlish way: for my $x ( 0 .. $#amen ) { John -- use Perl; program fulfillment -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The number of elements in an array

2003-01-16 Thread John W. Krahn
Robert Monical wrote: At 01:12 AM 1/16/2003 -0800, you wrote: An array in scalar context return the number of elements in the array so you probably want: for ( my $x = 0; $x @amen; $x++ ) { Or the more Perlish way: for my $x ( 0 .. $#amen ) { Thanks, both