Terrence Brannon wrote:

>One day my boss asked me: "how do you get the length of an array in
>Perl?"

>But of course what irked me is how unintuitive and irregular Perl is

Didn't you even wonder why your boss insists on calling this "length"? I
call it "number of elements", or "count". 

A string has a length. A string is not an array.

-- 
	Bart.