On Oct 17, HENRY,MARK (HP-Roseville,ex1) said:
>> You really don't need to, but ok.
>>
>This depends on whether I want to modify the passed in variable.. (as well
>as to be hip :)
You can modify variables sent to a function by modifying @_ by index:
sub foo {
$_[0] += 2;
}
$r = 13;
foo $r;
print $r; # 15
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