So im a long time listener, first time caller....
now that the introductions are out of the way, im trying to work thru the ol' Perl 5 By Example, and im on the references chapter, getting a lil upset at the exercises..... my objective is to create multiple arrays, remove the first item from each array, and then display the number of characters removed.
im unable to even get my code to display the internal variable im dereferencing.
heres the code :
#!/usr/bin/perl

poo ( (1..4), ("goo", "doo", "moo"), (6..9) );

sub poo {
my($first, $second, $third) = @_;
my @array = \@{$second};

print("@array");
}

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its not quite being too friendly. would any of you kind monks be able to thrust me over to where the solution likes to hang out with all those unicorns and leprachauns... Thanks

In reply to Dereferenced Arrays by SirDonkeyPunch

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