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Re: Trouble getting size of list returned from sub

by kcott (Archbishop)
on Nov 26, 2012 at 09:07 UTC ( [id://1005597]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Trouble getting size of list returned from sub

G'day wanna_code_perl,

You can achieve this by wrapping bad() in @{[...]}.

$ perl -Mstrict -Mwarnings -E ' sub bad { qw/foo bar baz/ } say scalar bad(); say scalar @{[bad()]}; ' baz 3

-- Ken

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