Oh, yes! I see. I went through the codes several times but did not pick that mistake for some reason. Perhaps I was working too late in the night :-)
This works: $received_arg = shift; Thanks => -----Original Message----- => From: Uri Guttman [mailto:u...@stemsystems.com] => Sent: 20 July 2010 04:44 => To: Mimi Cafe => Cc: 'Perl Beginners' => Subject: Re: Can't use string 1 as HASH ref while strict refs in use => => >>>>> "MC" == Mimi Cafe <mimic...@googlemail.com> writes: => => MC> $received_arg = @_; => => read perldoc perldata and see what happens when you assign an array to => a => scalar. you don't get what you think you are getting. context is VERY => important to learn in perl and this is a critical context situation => that => is very common. i won't give you the answer since reading about it => will => strengthten your learning about this. => => uri => => -- => Uri Guttman ------ u...@stemsystems.com -------- => http://www.sysarch.com -- => ----- Perl Code Review , Architecture, Development, Training, Support => ------ => --------- Gourmet Hot Cocoa Mix ---- http://bestfriendscocoa.com -- => ------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
