In a message dated 3/2/2004 9:21:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >$#array + 1 still is the size of the array and it won't modify the >array. That's not what we were talking about. We were talking about >++$#array, which expands to $#array = $#array + 1. Note the equal sign >there, because it's what modifies the array.
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