Re: [perl #37186] push returning total number elements instead of number new elements

[Ronald J Kimball]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:38:41PM -0700, David Ljung Madison wrote:

> The return value for push is the total number of elements in the array.
> 
> According to the docs, push:
> 
>   "Returns the new number of elements in the array."
> 
> Example code:
> 
>   my @j = (1..100);
>   print push(@j,42), "\n";
> 
> Should display 1, but it displays 101.

push returns the new (number of elements) in the array, not the number of
(new elements) in the array.

Ronald