In Perl, you need to explicity pull variables off of @_ when passing params in:

sub arg_test1 
{
    my $arg1 = shift;  # shift() defaults to @_
    my $arg2 = shift;

    return $arg1;
}

# Another way
sub arg_test2 
{
    my ($arg1, $arg2) = @_;

    return $arg1;
}

my $test1 = arg_test1(1, 2);
my $test2 = arg_test2(1, 2);
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Perhaps you may be able to help me. I read the example that you send me but I still not clear on how to do it. it seems that I may have a brain cramp. Basically it try to pass an @array variable to another variable to be process. Here is the rest of my code

#! perl -w

use strict;

my $infile  = 'c:/doclist1.chr';
my $outfile = 'c:/doclist1.txt';

   open IN, "<$infile"  or die "Couldn't open $infile, $!";
   open OUT, ">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open $outfile, $!"; 
   
   while(<IN>) {
   chomp;
   
   my @fields = split /,/;
   my $path_str = $fields[6];

   do { warn "Empty field 7"; next } unless $path_str;

   my @path = split /\\/, $path_str;
   
   # assuming you want to remove a few directories
   my @new_path = join "\\", @path[0,5,6];

   print OUT "\n@new_path";
     
}
exit;
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I'm trying to pass @new_path to a $_ variable to be process could you please help?

my @new_path = join "\\", @path[0,5,6];

@newpath should not be an array variable since the result of join is a scalar. That should be $newpath. If you want to pass that value to a subroutine, do this:

...
    $new_path = join "\\", @path[0,5,6];
    process_directory($new_path);
...

sub process_directory {
    my ($path) = @_; #$path gets the value from $new_path above
    ....
}
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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';
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