[ale] Perl Question

[charriglists at joimail.com (Calvin Harrigan)]

On Sun, 2003-08-24 at 22:25, Fletch wrote:
> Check perldoc -f split.  split() in scalar context returns the number
> of fields found and puts the split items into @_ (where arguments to
> subroutines normally go).  If you really need the number of fields, do
> something like:
> 
> my @fields = split( $backend_seperator, backendCommand( $query ) );
> my $recs = @fields;

Thanks!  I did eventually find the typo  $->@

Calvin...

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