Re: Trouble getting size of list returned from sub

[Don Coyote]

Could adding an evaluation to the end of the sub something like;

sub gettinglist{

$ListItemReturnedCount++ if { Item retrieved };

return $ListItemReturnedCount;

}

be a possible alternative? Ok, perhaps if you are debugging but not for production as a very unexpectedly short list would be returned to a calling routine somewhere. So, seeing as the sub is returning a list anyway. Could you not retrieve the number from some other place, for example from the sub/routine to where the list is called from?

[ColonelPanic]

Of course this could be easily solved if one can edit the subroutine. However, as the poster noted, it's someone else's code and an XS sub, not a Perl sub.