LR wrote: > > John Porter wrote: > > @a = (undef) x 5; # any value; it will get overwritten. > > I keep seeing that, and I keep wondering how that differs from this: > my @a; $#a = 4; Oh, I like that even better! Or how about: { local $[ = 1; $#a = $n_hands; } John Porter ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe