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

[Joshua Juran]

On Sep 16, 2005, at 4:38 PM, David Ljung Madison (via RT) 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."

Right -- the new number of elements, as opposed to the number of new 
elements.

Example code:

  my @j = (1..100);
  print push(@j,42), "\n";

Should display 1, but it displays 101.

My reading of the docs you quoted is consistent with the exhibited 
behavior.  The old number of elements is 100 and the new number of 
elements is 101.

Josh