in reply to Subroutine Behaviour

An example says 1000 words?

sub test { @a = @_; print(@a); # abc $a = scalar(@_); print($a); # 3 (number of elements) $a = @_; print($a); # 3 ($a is a scalar) $a = $_[0]; print($a); # a ($a) = @_; print($a); # a } $\ = "\n"; test('a', 'b', 'c');

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Re^2: Subroutine Behaviour
by saberworks (Curate) on Sep 25, 2004 at 20:31 UTC
    And:
    sub test { ($arg1, $arg2, $arg3) = @_; print $arg1; # a print $arg2; # b print $arg3; # c }