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in reply to Re: Ignorance Isnt Always Bliss
in thread Ignorance Isnt Always Bliss

As an example of Grandfather's comments about $#array and its value for an empty array, and as a duplication of the specific error message you are getting: 

perl -wMstrict -e "my @bids = ();  chomp($bids[$#bids])"
Modification of non-creatable array value attempted, subscript -1 
at -e line 1.

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