note philipbailey <p>The documentation of [perldoc://length] answers your question:</p> <p>'length Returns the length in characters of the value of EXPR. If EXPR is omitted, returns length of $_. Note that this cannot be used on an entire array or hash to find out how many elements these have. For that, use "scalar @array" and "scalar keys %hash" respectively.'</p> 893123 893123