I am not sure what exactly your code does. So i am not sure how to convert it into Perl

In Perl, the arguments to subs/functions are sent as lists. So you can put your first element as the format and the subsequent elements are the args you want to send. Here is a dummy function that does something like that 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my @ret = pow("3 2 3 2",(2,3,5,7));
print +($_,$/) for @ret;

sub pow {
    my ($fmt, @values) = @_;
    my @fmts = split /\s+/, $fmt;

    return map {$_**shift(@fmts) } @values;
}
__END__
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The first param's first element tells you by what power the first arg should be raised.

In reply to Re: How to implement printf like functions by sk
in thread How to implement printf like functions by kamesh3183

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