Counting array elements in Perl

Question

How do I get the total items in an array, NOT the last id?

None of two ways I found to do this works:

my @a;
# Add some elements (no consecutive ids)
$a[         


        

Answer 1

@people = qw( bob john linda ); 
$n = @people; # the number 3
Print " le number in the list is $n \n"; 

Expressions in Perl always return the appropriate value for their context. For example, how about the “name” * of an array. In a list context, it gives the list of elements. But in a scalar context, it returns the number of elements in the array: