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Well, first, I think you want the function to be "join_files". But anyway, you can't return an array in scalar context and expect it to be an array -- maybe you want to return a reference to the array, or maybe you want to use the elements in the array as arguments to the new constructor...

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Re: Re: Returning an array from a sub in a package
by jryan (Vicar) on Aug 24, 2001 at 04:07 UTC
    Yeah, woops, its supposed to be join_files. I was in a hurry. Exactly how would I return the reference?
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      You'd do return \@array.

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