Thanks for your input, people!

Sorry about the lack of code example before. Here's what I've come up with so far: 

get_highest_vers(\@vers);

sub get_highest_vers {
  my $vers_index;
  my @sorted_vers;

  my @locvers = @_;

  $#sorted_vers = -1;

  if ($#locvers == -1) {
    $highest_vers = 0.00;
  } else {
    for ($vers_index = 0; $vers_index <= $#locvers; $vers_index++) {
      $locvers[$vers_index] =~ s/\.\/v//;
      $locvers[$vers_index] += 0;
    }
    # Sort the archive version numbers and grab the highest one
    @sorted_vers     = sort {$b <=> $a}  @locvers;
    $highest_vers    = shift(@sorted_vers);
  }
    ($major, $minor) = split(/\./, $highest_vers);
}

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This seems to work, (although I can't help feeling it's a little ornate!)

Anyway, I'm still having problems when I try and move the subroutine to a seperate module and call it in using the "use Module" construct:

I get a complaint that the argument given in the subroutine call should be an array, not a reference constructor. It also says that no implicit dereferencing is allowed--use the {EXPR} forms as an explicit dereference.

Can anyone advise? BTW, I'm using "diagnostics" and "strict".

-Withnail

In reply to Re: Re: How to determine if an array passed as an argument to a subroutine is zero-length by Withnail
in thread How to determine if an array passed as an argument to a subroutine is zero-length by Withnail

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