On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 13:43:08 -0600, Siegfried Heintze
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This works and does what I want it to:
>
> perl -e '@x = split("\\.", "a.b.c"); print $x[0];'
>
> Why does not this work?
> perl -e 'print @{split("\\.", "a.b.c")}[0];'
Because split doesn't return an array refer
R. Joseph Newton wrote:
> > Hi Malik,
> >
> > If you pass a reference to the array as the first argument as below
> you can
> > keep the array separate from the other arguments you are passing.
> >
> > @abc = qw(1 2 3);
> > $x = 4;
> > $y = 5;
> >
> > testsub([EMAIL PROTECTED], $x, $y
