Re: passing arrays to subroutines

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A subroutine gets it's arguments as an array (@_), so if you do

my @array = (1,2,3,4,5);
some_sub(@array);
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Within some_sub, @_ will equal the contents of @array.
However, you probably want to pass the array into the subroutine by reference (see perlref for more):

my @array = (1,2,3,4,5);
some_sub( \@array );
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In that case, the first element of @_, the argument list to some_sub, will be a reference to @array.

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Re^2: passing arrays to subroutines by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2011 at 14:22 UTC
`# an array, any array my @bunchOfData = (); # Subroutine: trythis - shows how to pass an array sub trythis { my @array = @_; print "@array\n"; } # where the subroutine is called to do something with the array &trythis(@bunchOfData);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^2: passing arrays to subroutines
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2011 at 14:22 UTC

# an array, any array
my @bunchOfData = ();

# Subroutine: trythis - shows how to pass an array
sub trythis
{
        my @array = @_;
        print "@array\n";

}

# where the subroutine is called to do something with the array
&trythis(@bunchOfData);
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