Another problem you have is in how you are passing your arguments to your subroutine. 

$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'sub say_args { my @foo = shift; my @bar = shift; 
+say "foo: $_" for @foo; say "bar: $_" for @bar; } my @foo = qw/a b c/
+; my @bar = qw/x y z/; say_args( @foo, @bar );'
foo: a
bar: b

$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'sub say_args { my @foo = shift; my @bar = shift; 
+say "foo: $_" for @foo; say "bar: $_" for @bar; } my @foo = qw/a b c/
+; my @bar = qw/x y z/; say_args( \@foo, \@bar );'
foo: ARRAY(0x17b85e8)
bar: ARRAY(0x17b9110)

$ perl -Mstrict -wE 'sub say_args { my $foo = shift; my $bar = shift; 
+say "foo: $_" for @$foo; say "bar: $_" for @$bar; } my @foo = qw/a b 
+c/; my @bar = qw/x y z/; say_args( \@foo, \@bar );'

foo: a
foo: b
foo: c
bar: x
bar: y
bar: z

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As you can see you need to pass references to your arrays (else they will be concatenated, and additionally you will only get one element at a time with shift), and then dereference them inside the subroutine. See perlreftut.

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Array lookup by 1nickt
in thread Array lookup by bartrad

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