On 14 June 2010 23:46, Lyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > This technique came up at one of the meets. I just used this piece of > code in a project:- > my $length = ($#import_fields, $#csv_fields)[ @csv_fields > > @import_fields]; > Is it advisable though from a maintenance and readability point of view? > > Lyle > > _______________________________________________ > BristolBathPM mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.bristolbath.org/mailman/listinfo/bristolbathpm >
my $length= @csv_fields > @import_fields ? $#csv_fields : $#import_fields is probably a better known idiom. I wasn't aware of List::Util but that looks better still
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