Hi perl mavens,
I'm sure I just don't understand something here, but this one makes zero
sense to me:
The following snippet prints a 1
local @aList;
push @aList, ['first','second','third'];
my $nCount = @aList;
print "count: $nCount";
BUT, if I add one seemingly irrelevant line ( the second one below ),
something crazy happens:
local @aList;
print "non-existent value: $aList[0][0]\n";
push @aList, ['first','second','third'];
my $nCount = @aList;
print "count: $nCount";
instead of printing a 1, the last line prints a 2
So the reference in the first print statement to $aList[0][0] appears to
have the affect of creating a row in the array.
Is this supposed to work this way? Why would such a reference to a
non-existent array row result in the creation of an array row?
Thank you.
- john
John DePasquale
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