In your code snippet, the "user" sub was written to expect an array reference and a hash reference as its args, but when you called the sub, you forgot to put backslashes in front of the args, and so you passed the full list of array values and hash keys and values instead.

I suspect that was a copy/paste error when you posted the code. If it had been that way in the script that you actually ran, I think you would have gotten an error message (something about "can't treat a string (or number?) as an array reference") instead of the flattened list that GrandFather explained about.

Anyway, you probably don't need to be doing the prototyping thing in the sub declaration.

In reply to Re: Subroutine Parameters by graff
in thread Subroutine Parameters by radicalfix

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