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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: bug in perl concerning arrays?
Message-ID: <5262@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 5 Jul 89 23:23:00 GMT
References: <2070@taux01.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <2070@taux01.UUCP> cjosta@tasu77.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) writes:
: #!/usr/local/bin/perl
: @directory = @ARGV;
: --$#directory;
: print $#directory;
: 
: This should set the array 'directory' equal to all of the command line
: arguments except the last one.  But, the last line in the perl program
: always prints out '-1' and the array is left null.
: ...
: Am I doing something wrong here?  Or is this a bug in perl?

It's a bug, and I just fixed it in 3.0.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov