Answer: How do I find the index of the last element in an array? contributed by vroom You can find it in the special variable $#arrayname For example: @foo=('b','a','r'); $lastindex=$#foo; #in this case 2 the index of 'r' [download]

Answer: How do I find the index of the last element in an array? contributed by chromatic You can also use negative array indexes: my @demo = ("one", "two", "three", "four"); print $demo[-1]; [download] The result is "four".

Answer: How do I find the index of the last element in an array? contributed by ChrisS Be careful... you can change the starting index value to something other than zero. I would not recommend doing so, but if you did, you'd get the wrong value by using scalar. Let me show you what I mean: # change the starting index -- usually not a good idea. $[ = 2; # create a sample array @data = qw(one two three four); # try to find the last index value $bad = @data - 1; $still_bad = scalar @data - 1; $good = $#data; # what did we find? print "bad: $bad\n"; # gives 3 print "still bad: $still_bad\n"; # gives 3 print "good: $good\n" # gives 5 [download] So I would recommend two things: Don't change the starting index value without a very good reason. Use the $#array_name syntax if you really need the last index value. (Usually, you want the last element, and can just use the negative subscript technique mentioned above.) Trying to debug someone else's code when they've changed $[ can be particularly annoying.

Answer: How do I find the index of the last element in an array? contributed by heezy Just for any newbies... Don't forget array indicies start at zero @letterList = ("a", "b", "c", "d"); a is at position 0 b " " " 1 c " " " 2 ... Hope that helps out anyone who fell for the oldest trick in the book Mark

Answer: How do I find the index of the last element in an array? contributed by Anonymous Monk #!/usr/bin/perl @A=(1,2,3); print scalar @A-1; # Index is "scalar @A - 1" !! [download] Edited: davido added code tags.

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