Greetings,

I've been working on a recursive function, but I can't seem to make it return anything other than 0. The Dumper() statement in the exit case shows that I should be getting the correct value, but by the time it gets back to the main function, it's 0.

I'm assuming that I'm picking up another value from somewhere, but I have no idea from where. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

# Prototype defined to avoid 'function not defined' warnings
# on compilation.
sub unpack_row($@);
sub unpack_row($@){
    my $hash = shift(@_);
    my @row = @_;
    if(ref($hash) eq 'HASH'){
        my $header = $hash->{'header'};
        while(my ($key, $value) = each(%$hash)){
            unpack_row($value, (@row, $key));
        }
    } else {
        print Dumper((@row, $hash));
        return (@row, $hash);
    }
}

my $hash = {};
$hash->{'foo'}->{'bar'}->{'bat'} = 5;
print unpack_row($hash, ());

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In reply to Recursive function always returns 0 by jpfarmer

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