Just returning to perl learning after a few years and I have a problem that searching the net is not helping me very much.

I am trying to pass an array back from a subroutine but I am losing the data along the way. Any help would be very much appreciated!! Here is the relevant bit of my code 

if ($ff1) {my @a_ff1 =  &GetRow("$ff1")};

   
sub GetRow {
my ($set) = $_[0];

     my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT `filter_partnumber`,`filter_fram`
+,`filter_fleetguard`,`filter_notes` FROM `filter_desc` WHERE `filter_
+id` = $set ") or die $DBI::errstr;
          $sth->execute() or die $DBI::errstr;
          my @ary = $sth->fetchrow_array();
          $sth->finish;
       return @ary;
}

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The subroutine array (@ary) has the desired data if checked by printing before return. But it does not get assigned to @a_ff1 in the if statement.

In reply to Passing an array back from a subroutine by ramjamman

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