I believe that 
@all = (\@foo, \@bar);
return @all;

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and 
return \@foo, \@bar;

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are identical so far as perl is concerned. Kind of like 
print (1, 2, 3, 4);
    # and
print 1, 2, 3, 4;

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Anyway my suggestion is that if you're expecting a set number of elements from a subroutine then you can do something like this: 

my ($aryref1, $aryref2) = subroutine();
    # or if you want the longer way.
my $aryref1;
my $aryref2;
($aryref1, $aryref2) = subroutine();

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Note that if a subroutine returns a list and you do something like: 
my $ret = subroutine();

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Then $ret will be the number of elements in the list that subroutine returned, not the first.

Jacinta

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Returning two arrays.. by jarich
in thread Returning two arrays.. by NodeReaper

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