SPUG: lenght of string

David H. Adler dha at panix.com
Wed Oct 6 13:41:47 CDT 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 11:11:08AM -0700, Tim Maher wrote:
> 
> Specifically, the Perl technique for determining the length of a
> string is "length EXPR", not "%length EXPR" (which looks like a hash
> followed by a scalar).

Ahem.  s/scalar/bareword/

:-)

dha, 'pedantics backwards-r us'

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