bug in perl concerning arrays?
Jonathan Sweedler
cjosta at tasu77.UUCP
Sun Jul 2 16:50:51 AEST 1989
I am running perl on a Sun 3/60 with SunOS 3.5. The version is:
$Header: perly.c,v 2.0.1.10 88/11/22 01:14:58 lwall Locked $
Patch level: 18
I have the following perl program:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
@directory = @ARGV;
--$#directory;
print $#directory;
This should set the array 'directory' equal to all of the command line
arguments except the last one. But, the last line in the perl program
always prints out '-1' and the array is left null. If I change the
'--$#directory' line to be '$#directory = $#directory - 1'
or if I put the line 'print $#directory' before the '--$#directory'
line then the program works. It seems I must reference the '$#directory'
variable before I can use change it.
Am I doing something wrong here? Or is this a bug in perl?
Jonathan Sweedler === National Semiconductor Israel
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