yes It prints the same thing both times. Funny thing though, If I code the following 
print "first pass",br;
get_status("cups", "rlinux1");
print "second pass",br;
get_status($SERVERS[$rev_srv_num{$SERVER}]->[2], $SERVER);

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I get 
you passed cups for server rlinux1 
RSPARE-35 TFIEDLER 117760 Wed Mar 9 16:58:54 2005 
RSPARE-37 root 2048 Thu Mar 10 09:17:53 2005 
R_NETADMIN-43 TFIEDLER 74752 Thu Mar 10 12:59:19 2005 
R_NETADMIN_NB-44 TFIEDLER 74752 Thu Mar 10 12:59:44 2005 
RSPARE-45 TFIEDLER 34816 Fri Mar 11 10:23:08 2005 
second pass
you passed cups for server rlinux1

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passed to my browser
but If I change the order of the get_status calls (sending the variables in the first pass, and hard coding the second pass),
I get: 
first pass
you passed cups for server rlinux1

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It never makes it to the second pass.

BTW I tried writing:get_status($SERVERS[$rev_srv_num{$SERVER}]->[2], $SERVER); as $SERVERS[$rev_srv_num{$SERVER}][2] and that doesnt work either

In reply to Re^4: passing vars to a sub by tcf03
in thread passing vars to a sub by tcf03

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