in reply to Passing Any Range of Values to a Sub

Update TIMTOWTDI, as seen by tye's post below. All a matter of perspective. ; )

In this case, you don't want to use the .. operator (which produces consecutive numbers), you just want to pass a list of values. @ARGV contains this list, except for the first element, which is the operation. So shift off the first element from @ARGV, figure out what to do, pass the rest of @ARGV to the appropriate function, and you should be set.

I'd suggest you figure it out yourself, but here's the code if you really want to see it... 

# Program that will add or multiply as many numbers that are entered.
# Use the program as such: program.pl add 3 2 1

use warnings;
use strict;

my $rtn;

my $cmd = shift @ARGV;

if ($cmd =~ /add/) {
 $rtn = add(@ARGV);
 print "The sum is: $rtn";
}
elsif ($cmd =~ /multiply/) {
 $rtn = multiply(@ARGV);
 print "The product is: $rtn";
}


sub add {
 my $sum = 0;
 my @data = @_;
 for (@data){
  $sum += $_;
 }
 return $sum;
}


sub multiply {
  my $product = 1;
  my @data = @_;
  for (@data) {
   $product *= $_;
  }
  return $product;
}

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