OT: Perl syntax Question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 10:52:13AM -0400, Joseph Kubik wrote:
> What does the following mean?
> 
> ($#{$reg->{'sale'}{'items'}} == -1)
> 
> As, in, What does $#{} really do?

$# = $OFMT, which is some weird deprecated perl thing that shouldn't be
used anymore, because printf is a much more sane way to do things.

Or so says the camel book.

Lennart Sorensen
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