I am not a Perl programmer. But I badly need to fix my colleague's code, and I'm stuck. Please excuse me if I came to a wrong place.

Here's the slightly obfuscated snippet from real script: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;

sub get_useful_number_1()
{
    my ($self, $harness, $bridle_radius, $max_spit_distance, $num_legs
+, $last_name, $day_phone, $days_without_water) = @_;
    my $camel_id;

   if (1 == 1)
   {
       $camel_id = get_camel_id($self, $harness, $bridle_radius, $max_
+spit_distance, $num_legs, $last_name, $day_phone);
       # line above: NO COMPLAINTS
   }
}


sub get_camel_id()
{
    my ($self, $harness, $bridle_radius, $max_spit_distance, $num_legs
+, $last_name, $day_phone) = @_;
    my $camel_id = 18;

    if ($camel_id  == 18)
    {
        return($camel_id);
    }
    else
    {
        return(-18);
    }
}


sub get_useful_number_2()
{
    my ($self, $harness, $bridle_radius, $max_spit_distance, $num_legs
+, $last_name, $day_phone, $days_without_water) = @_;
    my $camel_id;

   if (1 == 1)
   {
       $camel_id = get_camel_id($self, $harness, $bridle_radius, $max_
+spit_distance, $num_legs, $last_name, $day_phone);
       # line above: Too many arguments for main::get_camel_id at ./er
+rand-01.pl line 41, near "$day_phone)"
   }
}

1;

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The code won't compile, giving a syntax error message "Too many arguments". The only difference between caller1 and caller2 is... the 2nd one is located after the function I need to call in the file.

My best bet: it's related to the sin #2: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/11/sins.html#2

Can anybody bring piece back to my life please?

20050416 Janitored by Corion: Added formatting, changed PRE to CODE, linkified link

In reply to Badly need to call a function...:-) by Mabooka-Mabooka

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