Brothers and Sisters: This may be dismissed as a stupid newbie error, but I have a problem that my own resources have yet to resolve.

Essentially, I have a subroutine that is pulling in data from a mysql database, returing things that match in an array, counting the matches, and then returning both the array and the count. Basically, here's how it looks now:

(@ary1, $num) = read_data(\@tmpary, $tmpsclr);

...

sub read_data

{


    ... do stuff with @retary and $count
    return @retary, $count;
}

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I have been all over in the Holy Camel Book, and the most I can find is info about returning multiple hashes or arrays, and nothing regarding an array and a scalar together. Any help would be appreciated.

Brother Descartes

-- Programmus, ergo sum.

In reply to Arrays and Scalar Parameters by descartes

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