One university computer lab used to have a teddy bear on a table next to the consultant's office. Before you could ask for help, you had to explain your problem to the teddy bear.

It works without a consulting office, even without a university. Just explain your problem in detail to the teddy bear, or hat, or whatever you have around, and eventually, you'll say something like, "I don't understand why it stops working when i divide by zero."

If a brief discussion with a shoe doesn't help, write a really, really, detailed message to perlmonks. Don't just cut-and-paste code, but discuss what it should do and what it actually does. If you don't figure out the problem along the way, you can actually submit it for outside assistance.

As Occam said: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

In reply to Re^4: Passing three arrays to a subroutine by TomDLux
in thread Passing three arrays to a subroutine by jaichaud

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