passing an array and some scalars to a subroutne

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I have a problem(!) but I can't understand why is it so. I have a set of variables (Which is all scalars) and an array to be passed on to a subroutine. The array and the scalars come from two different subroutines. Please see the code below

 my ($id_snp, $id_assay, $session,  $load_set) = @_; #these variables
   my (@lines) = @_;          #this array 
   my $plate_id = $cgi->param('plate');
   my $barcode = Verifynumber($plate_id);
   my $plate = $barcode->{Number};
   my $dna_well;
   $dna_well = $STATEMENTS->get("geno_manifest.sql_lib::get_dnawell", 
+[$plate, lc$lines[2]]);
   print "dna_well: $dna_well->[0]->[0]";
   print "SNP: $id_snp, assay:$id_assay , session $session, load_set: 
+ $load_set";
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The result I get is:

SNP: 8925827, assay:67 , session 5884, load_set: 227dna_well: 5381721(
+ which is right.
and the rest of the results are the values of the scalar are  
from the array @lines).
SNP: True, assay:3200768 , session A1, load_set: EPS316120dna_well: 53
+81817SNP: True, assay:3200768 , session A2, load_set: EPS31807
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Also, the dna_well which is processed in this subroutine hasn't got a problem. Could any one suggest me what I am doing wrong here. And why is that using the array values if used along with the variables. Thanks for you help in advance
The @lines is something like this:

True    3200768 A1      EPS316120       8.535   17.575  GG      0.90
True    3200768 A2      EPS318077       8.820   17.126  GG      0.95
True    255     A3      EPS316121       17.084  13.650  GA      0.97
True    3200768 A4      EPS318078       8.541   16.653  GG      0.94
True    16744448        A5      EPS316122       18.267  3.880   AA    
+  1.00
True    255     A6      EPS318079       13.130  11.004  GA      0.91
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Thanks a lot.

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Re: passing an array and some scalars to a subroutne by bellaire (Hermit) on Mar 06, 2009 at 13:52 UTC
First off, I have pretty much no idea what you were trying to say, your description is incomprehensible. However, just looking at your code: `my ($id_snp, $id_assay, $session, $load_set) = @_; #these variables my (@lines) = @_; #this array` [download] The value of `@_` doesn't change between these two lines. That means that the first four values of `@lines` are going to be the same as the four variables you grab on the first line. Is that what you are trying to do, or is the value of @lines supposed to be the arguments after those four?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: passing an array and some scalars to a subroutne by Anonymous Monk on Mar 06, 2009 at 14:27 UTC
Hi, Sorry I dint mention that they both are different. @lines is a slurp of a tab delimited file where as the $id_snp, $id_assay, $session, $load_set are values from the database. I need all these values to be loaded into another table in this subroutine. Thanks a lot.	[reply]
Re: passing an array and some scalars to a subroutne by toolic (Bishop) on Mar 06, 2009 at 14:17 UTC
Maybe you want? `my ($id_snp, $id_assay, $session, $load_set, @lines) = @_;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: passing an array and some scalars to a subroutne by olus (Curate) on Mar 06, 2009 at 14:22 UTC
You can also `shift` the args. Also, since the arguments are passed as a list, you could start considering passing references to the arrays and deref them in the sub. That way you can pass other args after the first array, or multiple arrays (that would otherwise be considered a single one). `use strict; use warnings; my $arg1 = "abc"; my @arg2 = (1, 2, 3, 4); show_args($arg1, \@arg2); sub show_args { my $arg1 = shift; my $arg2 = shift; my @lines = @{$arg2}; print @lines; }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: passing an array and some scalars to a subroutne by Bloodnok (Vicar) on Mar 06, 2009 at 14:11 UTC
As bellaire pointed out, you load the first 4 args in both cases, I'm guessing what you meant was: `. my ($id_snp, $id_assay, $session, $load_set) = splice @_, 0, 4; #thes +e variables my @lines = @_; #this array . .` [download] Update: Mis-spelt bellaires monika A user level that continues to overstate my experience :-))	[reply] [d/l]