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<blockquote><p><i>"Is there no way to avoid the temp variable?"</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Kinda. It comes down to the difference between lists and arrays. Assigning an array to a scalar gives you the length of the array. Assigning a list to a scalar gives you the final item in the list.</p>
<p>That said, Perl allows arrays to be anonymous. So even if you need an array, you don't need to create a variable for it...</p>
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