In article <q8h73t0mujv47cjdelpvo789asfve7cjb4 / 4ax.com>, Bart Lateur <bart.lateur / skynet.be> wrote: >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. No, but an array is a string. A Perl array may not be the same thing as a Perl scalar, but that doesn't matter. (Especially since a Perl scalar isn't really a scalar in the first place. But then again, an integer in most languages is a bit vector, so they aren't scalars either...) - Logan