Esteemed Perl Monks;
I am trying to do something akin to the following;


thing(@\FooBar);
for (@{$FooBar[0]})
{
  print "$_\n";
}
for (@{$FooBar[1]})
{
  print "$_\n";
}


sub thing()
{
  ($REF_array)=@_;
  @Array=@{$REF_array};
  @Array[0]=([some,values]);
  @Array[1]=([some,more,values]);
}

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And I'm expecting it to print;
some
values
some
more
values


This reference / dereference stuff in perl really hurts my head, and looks ugly! ;P

Thanks for your time,
matt


Hmm, does anyone know historically why perl uses references to pass arrays etc.. to subroutines? and why you can only return one value from a subroutine?

In reply to I've read perlref by Anonymous Monk

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