hi dear members! i am new in Perl community i want to declare a function and try to pass some parameters same as i do in php. First i declare a function (umar).
sub umar ($width, $height) { $area = $width * $height / 2; return $area; } after that is I call function through a variable $result = umar(10,40); print "$result\n"; But it did't work and i got a error Illegal character in prototype for main::umar : $width,$height at ./test.pl line 7. Malformed prototype for main::umar: $width,$height at ./test.pl line 12. please help me what should i do? Regards, Umar Draz --------------------------------- Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1ยข/min.