Well, one answer/question is "why NOT use references?"

Another idea may be to pass in the size of the array, then you can slice them apart or something. 

use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

my @a=qw(1 2 3 4 5);
my %b=(
a => 1,
b => 2,
c => 3
);


sub printdata
{
my $size=shift;
my @x=@_[0..$size];
my %y=@_[$size+1..$#_];

print Dumper(\@x, \%y);

}


printdata($#a, @a, %b);

#__OUTPUT__
$VAR1 = [
          '1',
          '2',
          '3',
          '4',
          '5'
        ];
$VAR2 = {
          'c' => 3,
          'a' => 1,
          'b' => 2
        };

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I don't usually do this. I usually work with references since you take a performance hit when perl is forced to copy your arrays and hashes into a new memory slot when you pass then into a function. If there is a better way to do this, lemme know! I could swear I read about this in the camel book, but I am too tired to look it up now.

HTH

In reply to Re: problem with passing array and hash to sub-routine by pzbagel
in thread problem with passing array and hash to sub-routine by dannoura

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