in reply to I've never seen this before - $#a = 4 - ??
That can be used to allocate memory for an array before filling it up. It created five elements in @a and sets them all to undef.
Here's an example:
perl -MData::Dumper -e '$#foo = 4; print Dumper \@foo'
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