Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote: >On Jan 27, Jan Eden said: > >>I have a subroutine which fills into several hashes and arrays >>(%author_indexlines, %poem_lines, @alphabet_index etc). How can I >>return those variables and pass them to another subroutine?
[snip] >>I thought that this might be achieved returning references to the >>respective arrays and hashes and dereference them after passing, >>but since the elements have local scope in the read_index sub, I am >>not sure if this might work: > >You guessed almost correctly. You still have 'shift', though. >shift() will only return ONE element. Getting all of them from @_ >is the way to do it. > Ok. I noticed this problem trying to get it to work and did not rethink the way shift works. Thanks! - Jan -- There's no place like ~/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
