When you need to pass arrays or hashes to a subroutine, learn to pass them as references - it will save you a lot of headaches. As others have already said, the parameter list gets flattened out into a list of scalars, but if all you pass to the subroutine is scalars (references are scalars), then you are all right. 
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;

my @ar;

sub test_args{
 my ($ar_arrayref, $t) = @_;
 print "t = $t\n";
 print "ar = @$ar_arrayref\n";
 print "element 0 of array \@ar = $ar_arrayref->[0]\n";
 ###
 ### or create a new array from the reference ###
 my @test_ar = @$ar_arrayref;
 print "element 0 of array \@test_ar = $test_ar[0]\n";
}

push (@ar,"one");
push (@ar,"two");

test_args(\@ar,"three");
-----------------------------
output:

t = three
ar = one two
element 0 of array @ar = one
element 0 of array @test_ar = one

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HTH.

In reply to Re: passing array as an argument by hmerrill
in thread passing array as an argument by podian

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