"$#{$array} "

From: pande_vineet@xxxxxxxxxxx (Vineet Pande)
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 10:25:16 +0000

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

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
my @array = (1,2,3,4,5);
my $array_r = \@array;
print "the highest element is number $#{$array_r}\n";

Cheers
V

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