i have successfully completed my goal of shifting out the first element in each array, gettin the length of the element, and eventually printing out the calculated amount of them all put together.

this is by far the UGLIEST function i have seen. the flow control is wretched.... but its a beautiful fault in its own "crack in the liberty bell" sorta way 

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

sub poo {
my($first, $second, $third) = @_;
my @array = @{$second};
my $second = shift(@array);
my $length = length($second);
print("@array" , " $second", " $length\n");
@array = @{$first};
my $first = shift(@array);
my $length1 = length($first);
print("@array", " $first", " $length1\n");
@array = @{$third};
my $third = shift(@array);
my $length2 = length($third);
print("@array", " $third", " $length2\n");
my $result = $length + $length1 + $length2;
print("$result\n");
}

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no indents..... no comments... completely unmaintainable... but complete. only thing i have to ask now, is what suggestion would someone make to incorporate a loop to go thru. would it call for @_ [ $index ] and then increasing it throughout the loop until it returns undef?


thanks for all your guys' help, i really appreciate it.

In reply to Re^2: Dereferenced Arrays by SirDonkeyPunch
in thread Dereferenced Arrays by SirDonkeyPunch

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