I'm attempting to create a subroutine that will take a preexisting cfg file then load it to an array that can be used later in the script, but when I execute it I get the error "Can't use string ("TEST") as a symbol ref while "strict refs" in use ... (F) Only hard references are allowed by "strict refs". Symbolic references are disallowed" My code is as follows: 

sub cfgToARRAY {                
    my ($cfgfile, $array) = @_ ;
    open(OUTPUT, "<", $cfgfile) or die "Can't open $cfgfile: $!" ;
    my $input ;
    while ($input = <OUTPUT>) {
       chomp $input ;
       push (@$array, $input) ;
    }
    close(OUTPUT) ;
    return(@$array) ;
}
1 ;

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and what I'm trying to pass to the sub is 

cfgToARRAY("/informatica/scripts/arrayDisplayCDCWFs.cfg", "TEST") ;

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as a new perl user I'm stumped. Thank you!

In reply to Symbolic references disallowed by Boschman

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