Re: "$#{$array} "

On Jul 29, Vineet Pande said:

I don't not understand how the $#{$array_r} returns "highest" element as 4 and not 5???

$#arrayname returns the highest INDEX in the array -- that means it returns the location of the last element in the array. If your array has 10 elements, $#array returns 9, because $array[9] is the 10th element.

There is no variable that is magically the highest value in an array.

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