I'm having a devil of a time w/ perlref and perlsub... The goal is to return a list that is generated in a subroutine. I'm passing a hash and an array from another subroutine. The array and hash that I pass in are fine and do the right thing. something like this: 
sub blah
{
   match_files(\@array, \%hash);
}

sub match_files
{
   # do stuff to compare array against hash
   push(@files, $array_element);  # add some ary elements
   return @files;
}

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I've tried: 
@returned_files = match_files(\@array, \%hash);

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and 
match_files(\@array, \%hash);
print "@files\n";

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and 
$returned_files = match_files(\@array, \%hash);
print "$@returned_files \n";

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it shouldn't be this hard. any pointers in the right direction would be very much appreciated. -v

In reply to subroutines and returning lists... by ATB

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