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Re: passing arrays to subroutines

by gopalr (Priest)
on Mar 16, 2005 at 13:13 UTC ( [id://439931]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to passing arrays to subroutines

@arr=('1', '2', '3'); test(\@arr); sub test { my $a=@_[0]; print "\n@$a"; }

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Re^2: passing arrays to subroutines
by nobull (Friar) on Mar 16, 2005 at 21:02 UTC
    my $a=@_[0];

    Unpacking @_ with explicit subscripts is inefficient and unsightly. Using an array slice in a scalar context is also messy.

    my ($a)=@_;
    or
    my $a=shift;

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