Perl Tutorial - 47: Counting Number of Arguments Video Lecture | Perl Building Blocks: An Introduction to Perl - Back-End Programming

hello guys welcome to my channel this is
the 47th tutorial in this course and in
this tutorial we are going to see how we
can count the number of arguments that
have been passed to a subroutine there's
gonna be a really short and simple
tutorial and I have already created the
script it's called args underscore
number and in the script on line number
three I have created a subroutine called
count me and of course I've used the sub
keyword to do that and then on line
number eight I have made a call to this
subroutine and I passed three arguments
to it the first two are numbers number
one in two and then the third argument
is a string of text I know what you did
last summer so what we are trying to do
is you know display the number three on
screen basically that's what we're
trying to do because there are three
arguments that have been passed and we
want to know the number that the you
know the number of arguments have been
passed so inside the subroutine within
the body all you have to do is assign
the add rate underscore special list
which holds the arguments that have been
passed to the subroutine count me to a
scalar variable num and you don't have
to name this variable num you could name
it anything and if you do not like
simply assigning array variables to
scalar variables we've already seen this
in the course earlier when we understood
how we can count the number of elements
in an array variable we followed the
same approach but there's also a
function called scalar that you can use
around your array variable if you want
to make things if you want to make
things look more neat but anyway this
will get the job done so the output
would be stored in the variable num and
that output would be the number of
arguments that have been passed so the
next thing for us to do is to display
that number on screen and that's why I
have a print statement on line number
six which is first going to display the
text the number of arguments passed it's
going to show an equal to symbol and
then it's going to display the value
stored in the variable num and I make
sure this file saved
and I'll press f5 to run the script and
there we go we see that the number of
arguments passed is equal to three now
I'm gonna make a slight change after
this string of text I'm gonna pass
another numeric value four and I'll
rerun the script by pressing f5 and
there we go we see that the number of
arguments passed is four so that's it
for this tutorial I hope you guys had
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