Re: passing arguments as reference

in reply to passing arguments as reference

It is possible.

use strict;
use warnings;

sub foo{
    my $a = 1;
    print "$a\n";
    bar(\$a);
    print "$a\n";
}

sub bar{
    my $b = shift;
    $$b = 2;
}

foo;
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Re^2: passing arguments as reference by davidrw (Prior) on Apr 14, 2006 at 11:01 UTC
Avoid using `$a` and `$b` as sample variables because of their use as package global variables by sort	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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