On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 14:06 -0400, Richard Lee wrote: > can't you do below?? > > > sub criteria { > return qw/ 1,3,5,7,9 /; > } > > I was going to do > > sub criteria { > my @array = qw/1,3,5,7,9/; > } > > but was wondering if I can do without if i was calling the sub like this > > > my @array_result = criteria(); > > ?? >
Don't use commas inside a qw #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; $Data::Dumper::Sortkeys = 1; $Data::Dumper::Indent = 1; $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth = 0; sub criteria { return qw/ 1 3 5 7 9 /; } my @array_result = criteria(); print Dumper [EMAIL PROTECTED]; __END__ -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Linux is obsolete. -- Andrew Tanenbaum -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/