On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 02:04:37PM -0400, Derek Jones wrote: > Huh? > > That produces 6 - as it should. What version of Perl are you working with?
> On May 8, 2013, at 1:58 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > > scalar(1,2,,4,,6) You are right -- but this produces 4 first, as I had always thought it would, and then 6, as I don't quite understand. I would never use that kind of expression, and I sorta maybe understand why it says 6, but only in hindsight. #!/usr/bin/perl my @ary = (1,2,,4,,6); print "Step 1: ", scalar(@ary), "\n"; print "Step 2: ", scalar(1,2,,4,,6), "\n"; -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o