in reply to Passing array pointer through script input

It's nonsense. ;)

If you try `perl myscript.pl \@arr`; the \ quotes the @ and you end up with '@arr'. You could:

my $ref = \@arr;
`perl myscript.pl $ref`;

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but Perl would stringify $ref to something of the form: ARRAY(0x182df38).

However, none of this is solving your real problem. But then, you haven't actually told us what your real problem is. Take a couple of steps back in your thinking and tell us what you are trying to solve with this technique.

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Re^2: Passing array pointer through script input
by vit (Friar) on Aug 20, 2008 at 22:44 UTC
    OK, the whole story.
    I am passing file paths in the loop from the main script through several levels of script calls. In the bottom I read files and process.
    Sinse main script is also looped, I want to do something like to store files in array of arrays once and read from these arrays instead of reading from files which should be much faster.
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      Sounds like premature optimization. If the work you are doing per file is significant then the minor overhead of reading a list from a small file is trivial.

      It may be worth using something like DBM::Deep to store the list of files to be processed however to make management of the list easier and perhaps faster.

      Perl reduces RSI - it saves typing
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        The file has a special structure with addressing which allows a quick regection and that's why reading is a bottleneck not processing. Processing is much faster.
        I do not want to change this part and therefore I do not think I can use DBM::Deep.
        So actually the question is if it's possible to effectively pass arrays to called scripts. Join to a long string with /\n/ separator and then split inside...? Or how?
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