Am 21. May, 2002 schwätzte Roderick Ford so: > Does anybody know if, in perl, I 'push' an empty list or array to an > array, does the array still grow by one? Or should I handle the > indexing manually in those cases where it is empty. Sometimes my array > that I am pushing is empty, but I still want the array to grow by one. $ perl -e '@a = "a"; print "$#a\n"; push( @a, @a ); print "$#a\n"; push( @a, "" ); print "$#a\n";' 0 1 2 $ I'd say it does. ciao, der.hans -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ # The only way for a woman to change a man # is if he's wearing Depends[TM] - der.hans