Counting array elements in Perl

Question

How do I get the total items in an array, NOT the last id?

None of two ways I found to do this works:

my @a;
# Add some elements (no consecutive ids)
$a[         


        

Answer 1

Maybe you want a hash instead (or in addition). Arrays are an ordered set of elements; if you create $foo[23], you implicitly create $foo[0] through $foo[22].