Hi all,
I'm a bit late for a reply, but thought it would be appropriate to ask Babs
exactly what was required from the perl program.
Did you want to print the number of elements in the array, or print each
element in the array?
As Andrew Brosnan explained, setting a scalar equal to an array name
"B. Fongo" wrote:
> Hello
>
> An argument passed to a subroutine returns wrong value.
>
> Code example:
>
> @x = (1..5);
> $x = @x;
>
> showValue ($x); # or showValue (\$x);
>
> sub showValue {
>
> my $forwarded = @_;
> print $forwarded; # print ${$forwarded};
>
> }
>
> In both cases, the s
"B. Fongo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hello
>
> An argument passed to a subroutine returns wrong value.
>
> Code example:
>
> @x = (1..5);
> $x = @x;
>
here, $x gets the number of elements in @x
>
> showValue ($x); # or showValue (\$x);
>
>
> sub showValue {
On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 04:53 US/Pacific, Andrew Brosnan wrote:
On 9/4/03 at 11:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Fongo) wrote:
An argument passed to a subroutine returns wrong value.
Code example:
[..]
In both cases, the script prints out 1.
What is going on here?
You are asking Perl for the numb
On 9/4/03 at 11:34 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B. Fongo) wrote:
> Hello
>
> An argument passed to a subroutine returns wrong value.
>
> Code example:
>
> @x = (1..5);
> $x = @x;
>
> showValue ($x); # or showValue (\$x);
>
>
> sub showValue {
>
> my $forwarded = @_;
> print $forwarded
