use "perldoc -f length" 

try "perldoc perldoc" how to use perldoc



-----Original Message-----
From: Radhika Sambamurti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 11:16 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: checking all pieces of split data for NULL


Hi,
Just for extra information, I am interested in understanding how the
if (grep length == 0, @arrayname) works.
Or perhaps I could be pointed to some documentation ie perldoc where i
could find out more about is it the length function? works.

thanks,
radhika


>   while (<INPUT>) {
>     chomp;
>     my %record;
>     @[EMAIL PROTECTED] = split /,/;
>     if (my @empty = grep length $record{$_} == 0, @field_names) {
>       empty_fields(@empty);
>     }
>     else {
>       # process record
>     }
>   }


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