I use shift and references like in the following example. Hope this helps.
Roberto
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

my %hash;
my @array;

# here you pass the references and get them back
my ($ref_hash,$ref_array) = load_variables(\%hash,\@array);

# and then you pass these for printout
print_variables($ref_hash,$ref_array);

##################
sub load_variables {
##################

    my %hash1   = %{ shift() };
    my @array1  = @{ shift() };

### Load array
    @array1 = ('a','b','c');

### Populate the hash (for each character
### set the hash to the next

    map { 
        my $tmp = ++$_;
        $hash1{$_} = qq($tmp);
    } @array1;

### Return the references
    return (\%hash1,\@array1);

}

###################
sub print_variables {
###################

    my %hash2  = %{ shift() };
    my @array2 = @{ shift() };

    map { printf q(hash: ).qq($hash2{$_}\n) } keys %hash2;
}

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In reply to Re: Re: passing an array by rbi
in thread passing an array by parsifal

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