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Jun 192010
 

Get array size in Perl

Answer:

To get the size of array in Perl, you have two methods.

Sample code:

my @a = (1, 2, ,3);

1. By scalar context

my $size = scalar @a;

2. By special variable $#array

my $size = $#a + 1;

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