OT: Perl syntax Question

[Taavi Burns]

On 10/24/05, Joseph Kubik <josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> What does the following mean?
>  ($#{$reg->{'sale'}{'items'}} == -1)
>
> As, in, What does $#{} really do?

It returns the index of the last element in the list (or -1 if there
are no elements in the list).  See "man perldata" and search for $#
(in vi you'd do that by typing /\$\#).

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