Your style of parameter checking is very cumbersome and will get unwieldly if you have more than one argument to parse. It's much more readable to write your parameter code like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# usage: first parameter is user name
#        second parameter is message

my ($user, $message) = @ARGV;
print "Hello $user. Your message is: $message\n";

sub func {
  # note: $a and $b are bad variables to use,
  #       as they are special variables used by sort()
  my ($c,$d) = @_;
  print $c,$d;
  return $c+$d;
};

print func(10,10);

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Update: Changed $a and $b in func

In reply to Re: Usage of Shift function in PERL by Corion
in thread Usage of Shift function in PERL by nallasiv

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