Dear perl monks, I have this module which has a sub that calculates the score of the poker hand (ScoreHand) it is in this link http://search.cpan.org/~pip/Games-Cards-Poker-1.2.565CHh5/Poker.pm, the synopsis goes like this:

use Games::Cards::Poker;

  # Deal Four (4) players hands and score them...
  my $players   = 4; # number of players to get hands dealt
  my $hand_size = 5; # number of cards to deal to each player
  my @hands     = ();# player hand data
  my @deck      = Shuffle(Deck());

  while($players--) {
    push(@{$hands[$players]}, pop(@deck)) foreach(1..$hand_size);
    printf("Player$players score:%4d hand:@{$hands[$players]}\n",
                                ScoreHand(@{$hands[$players]}));
  }
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what i want to know is how to use scorehand in this way:

#!/usr/bin/perl
@userinput = <STDIN>;
#What i will type e.g.: As,Qc,Td,6c,3h
$score = ScoreHand(@userinput);
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so far that only gives me the top score for everything I do, I don't fully get what exact form (scalar, hash , array) ScoreHand desires neither if it is supposed to be in string form. I also have the ScoreHand sub code:

sub ScoreHand { # returns the score of the passed in @hand or ShortHan
+d
  my @hand = @_; return(7462) unless(@hand == 1 || @hand == 5); my $sh
+rt;
  my $aflg = 0; $aflg = 1 if(ref($hand[0]) eq 'ARRAY'); my $aref;
  if(  $aflg      ) { $aref =  $hand[0];            }
  else              { $aref = \@hand;               }
  if(@{$aref} == 1) { $shrt =  $aref->[0];          }
  else              { $shrt =    ShortHand($aref);  }
  if(  $slow      ) { return(SlowScoreHand($shrt)); }
  else              { return(        $zdnh{$shrt}); }
}
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Thank you so much in advance, I will of course be willing to supply much more information if that is necessary. Rob