Need some perl array help

[Valdaun]

Sorry, I guess I wasn't totally clear. I need a way to have perl tell me how many entries are in my $turnins array I create at the beginning. That way I don't need to manually create another variable for that number myself. (4 in this case, since I have 4 item + reward entries in my example array) In PHP I could use the count() function to do this:

$max_turnins = count($turnins);

$itemcount is something else, and you can see I do use that too.

Thanks though

[Kobaz]

couldn't you use the ids of the turn-ins as keys to a hash that has the fabled item-id and costs in another hash? Then you wouldn't need an integer index, or a loop.