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last element of an array in perl

April 13th, 2007 by Lawrence David

perl indexes from the back using negative numbers.  so to get the last element of @array:

$array[-1]

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One Response to “last element of an array in perl”

1. on 13 Jul 2011 at 2:11 pm   Sanjay

   Thank you….it was very useful

   Cheers,
   Sanjay.