Hello

I have a subroutine that returns a string and an associated array. When I call it, I do it as in the following:

my ($String1 %AssocArray1) = MySubRoutine(SOME_ARGUMENTS1);

then I print the %AssocArray1 to the screen as follows:

foreach $test(keys %AssocArray1){
     print "$test\n";
}

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everything looks fine now, then when I call my subroutine again as follows:

my ($String2, %AssocArray2) = MySubRoutine(SOME_ARGUMENTS2);

and I print it to the screen as follows:

foreach $test(keys %AssocArray2){
     print "$test\n";
}

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it prints to me both %AssocArray1 (that I already printed before) then %AssocArray2

I tried to delete all elements of %AssocArray1 before I even call my subroutine for the second time for %AssocArray2, and then printed %AssocArray2 to the screen, but once again the same thing happened, it keeps printing %AssocArray1 and %AssocArray2 when I only want to print %AssocArray2

Anyone knows what's wrong with my coding here?

Notes:

I just checked my subroutine and CountOrlok you were right, I don't know how I missed defining the associated array for local use only. Thanks a lot to you and for the rest of the guys who were trying to help as well :) My program is now working perfectly as expected :)

Edited by planetscape - added code tags and fixed formatting

In reply to Associated Array Appending Unwillingly by cgi_pro

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