With two arrays, you do need to pass as references, otherwise there's no way to tell where one array ends, and the other begins. Once in the subroutine as references, you need to de-reference them to get at the values... 
my @array1 = ( 1..6 );
my @array2 = ( 7..12 );
my_sub( \@array1, \@array2 );

sub my_sub {
    my ( $ref1, $ref2 ) = @_;  # get these as references...
    @arr1 = @$ref1;
    @arr2 = @$ref2; # either deference into new variables...
    print @arr1, @arr2;

    print @$ref1, @$ref2;  # or just use the reference directly
}

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In reply to Re: passing arrays to subroutines by Masem
in thread passing arrays to subroutines by indapa

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