Name

sum

Synopsis

sum @LIST

Returns the sum of all items in the list. Note that sum deals only with numerical list items and will ignore any other list items. For example:

my @ll = qw(1 3 5 nate Person pizza man carl_everett dinosaur 6.54);
my $sum_of_list = sum(@ll);
print "$sum_of_list\n"; # Prints '15.54'

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