Ok, here goes nothing, my first post as an answer to someone. I hope I get this right...
It was said before that you don't need to declare the function with the parens. So: 

sub cleararray{
#code
}

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will do fine.

So as it stands, even if you did call it like: 

cleararry($radiovar);

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it still won't work, because the variable that you're popping off the argument list goes to $class, which is not what you want, because you wouldn't do anything with it. Also, the way it is now, you're just using a global variable ($radioval), so passing it isn't necessary. I am not saying that this is good!! I haven't done too much OO myself, but I think I would do it like this, but keep in mind, TMTOWTDI: 



sub clear_array{
    my($self, $var) = @_;
    my @array;
    for(my $i = 0; $i < $var; $i++){
           for(my $j = 0; $j < $var; $j++){
                  $array[$i][$j] = 0;
           }
    }
    return @array;
}

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I'm sure there's an easier way to do it. There's probably a function that will do this for you already. My version keeps all variables local to the function, which is usually a good practice (I think). But anyway, since it's like this, it returns a two-dimensional array with all of its values set to 0. So to call it: 

my $leroy = patterns->new(); #or my $leroy = new patterns;
@array_to_be_cleaned = $leroy->clear_array($radioval);

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If there really isn't any special reason that you're passing in $radioval, then you could just use foreach, I think. I hope this helps, and that I didn't mess up and confuse you more.

happy coding,
Derek

In reply to Re: passing a value to a function by derek3000
in thread passing a value to a function by ralfthewise

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