I am trying to build an array of arrays in one function, pass it out in to the main scope of the script, then back into another function to print it's contents.
Something like this perhaps 
sub ret_arr   { return( ["foo"],["bar"],["baz"] ) }
sub print_arr { print @$_ for @_ }

my @arr = ret_arr();
print_arr(@arr);

__output__

foobarbaz

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Could I also suggest a refactoring of your first function (now just returns a list of files ordered by mtime) 
use IO::Dir;
sub files_by_mtime {
  my $d = IO::Dir->new($_[0]) or die "ack: $!";
  return map  { $_->[0] }
         sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
         map  { [ $_, (stat "$_[0]/$_")[9] ] }
         grep { /^post.*\../ } $d->read;
}

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HTH

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broquaint

In reply to Re: Passing Array of Arrays by broquaint
in thread Passing Array of Arrays by marctwo

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