in reply to Returning lists vs arrays
--Reposting my answer from the duplicated node--
I think you're confused by the distinction between arrays and lists. Lists are a bunch of values, while arrays are variables that hold values. See perlfaq4.
Outside your subroutine, the distinction doesn't matter. It will all look like arrays:
sub return_array { my @a = (0, 1, 2, 3); return @a; } sub return_list { return (0, 1, 2, 3); } my @array1 = return_array(); my @array2 = return_list();
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Re: Re: Returning lists vs arrays
by ihb (Deacon) on Jan 20, 2003 at 16:54 UTC |
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