Re: Reading a Line into an Array

By the way, in Perl you don't often have to find out how many elements there are in an array. If you want the last element use: my $last = $array[ -1 ];

-- iakobski

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Re: Re: Reading a Line into an Array by zeidrik (Scribe) on May 31, 2001 at 12:19 UTC
Iakobski is right. This is smarter :) `#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; open(R,"textfile"); my @F=<R>; close(R); pop @F if $F[-1] eq "\n"; print @F;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]


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