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From: dwork@brahms.amd.com (Jeff Dwork)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: perl man page (bugs and enhancements)
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.193300.7083@amd.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 19:33:00 GMT
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In article <9131@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall) writes:
>In article <1990Aug13.194249.6156@amd.com> dwork@brahms.amd.com (Jeff Dwork) writes:
>: Two man page bugs:
>: 
>: >     splice(ARRAY,OFFSET)
>: >
>: >                  push(@a,$x,$y)                splice(@a,$#x+1,0,$x,$y)
>: 
>: Shouldn't that be `$#a'?
>
>No.  That would insert $x and $y before the last element.
>

What I meant was `$#a+1' as opposed to `$#x+1'.  It seems to me that `$#x'
refers to the last index of array @x, which has nothing to do with scalar $x.
Or am I still confused?

Thanks,
	Jeff
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