You need to pass these by reference, otherwise Perl will not see each array or hash as distinct.

You can create a reference by simply prefixing a variable with \ like so: 

processarrays(\@array1, \@array2);
processhashes(\%hash1, \%hash2);

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To use them inside of their routines you can do stuff like the following: 
$sub processarrays{
   my($a1, $a2) = @_;
   foreach(@$a1){ # dereferences $a1
      print $_;
   }
   for($i=0; $i<@$a2; $i++){
       print $a2->[$i];  #get at a particular index within array
   }
}
sub processhashes{
   my($h1,$h2)=@_;
   foreach my $key(keys %$h1){ #derefences $h1;
      print $h1->{$key};  #lookup based on $key
   }
}

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In reply to Re: How do I pass more than one array or hash to a subroutine by vroom
in thread How do I pass more than one array or hash to a subroutine by vroom

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