this will work, Thank you! On 30 January 2011 22:00, <p...@mail.nsbeta.info> wrote: > Jim Green writes: >> >> Hello, >> I usually use my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_; >> to get the arguments parsed to a subroutine. >> I want this to be smarter. Sometimes I want to pass $start, $end to >> the sub, sometimes I want to pass $start, $count to the sub. >> but in this case my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_; will get confused, it >> doesn't know if the argument is meant to be $end or to be $count. >> does subroutine have some mechanism like getopt::long and it can know >> what kind of arguments are passed in? > > Jim, > You could pass a hash reference instead. > %arg = (start=>'..',end=>'..',count=>'..'); > the_func(\%arg); > Regards. >
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