Hi to all, i am new to perl and need your help. I am trying to share an array of hashes between my main program and a thread, but i get an error. I wrote an example that illustrate my program: 
 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use warnings;
use strict;

use threads;
use threads::shared;

my @Array : shared = ();

my $thr = threads->create( \&handle_array , \@Array );

while( 1 ) {
        do_something(\@Array);
        printf "Main: Number of files: ". scalar(@Array) . "\n";
        sleep 5;
}

sub do_something {
    my ( $Array_ref ) = shift;

    push( @{$Array_ref} , {file => 'test1.zip',  price  => '10.00',  d
+esc  => 'the 1st test'} );
    sleep 10;
}

sub handle_array {
    my ( $Array_ref ) = shift;

    while (1) {
        printf STDOUT "Thread: Number of elements before: %d\n", scala
+r(@{$Array_ref});
        push( @{$Array_ref} , {file => 'test1.zip',  price  => '10.00'
+,  desc  => 'the 1st test'} );
        printf STDOUT "Thread: Number of elements after: %d\n", scalar
+(@$Array_ref);

        sleep 10;
    }
}

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after running this code, i get

Invalid value for shared scalar at foo.pl line 22.

since i am newbie, do i need to use "\" to my array? it make sence, but if it is from the first place shared, then... Regards

In reply to share array of hashes between main program and thread by Adler

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