--- Marc Sacks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I needed to find out the length of an array and did
> it by referencing 
> the array in scalar context. However, "use warnings"
> indicated that this 
> is a deprecated feature.  Is there a non-deprecated
> way to do this 
> (other than looping through the whole array until I
> run out of 
> elements)? Thanks.
> 

Hi Mark, 

the best practice/standard way to get an array length
is:

print scalar @array_name,"\n";
or
my $array_lnght = scalar @array_name;

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