sub dbAction is prototyped to take a reference to an array; but you call it with an array (not a reference). Update: See the reply by AnomalousMonk below; also Prototypes.

Without the prototype:

#! perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

my @params = qw(homer marge bart lisa maggie);
dbAction(@params);

sub dbAction
{
    print Dumper( @_), "\n";
    print Dumper(\@_);
}

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Outputs:

$VAR1 = 'homer';
$VAR2 = 'marge';
$VAR3 = 'bart';
$VAR4 = 'lisa';
$VAR5 = 'maggie';

$VAR1 = [
          'homer',
          'marge',
          'bart',
          'lisa',
          'maggie'
        ];

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At least one of these is what you wanted?

HTH,

Athanasius <°(((>< contra mundum

In reply to Re: Dumper Won't print @_ ? by Athanasius
in thread Dumper Won't print @_ ? by kingram

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