You are not using the 'strict' pragma. You therefore receive -- from me. This may just be a short snippet of code, but new people look at this and try to copy it. Don't shoot them in the foot.

Most people complain about not knowing why someone votes down their posts. I'm explaining why.

Moral: USE STRICT and USE WARNINGS!

Update:

kudra, again, points out something to which I'm oblivious. I do not mean to sound so brutal. I'm just trying to help you improve your perl code. Using 'strict' and 'warnings' will save you debugging hours and money, if you do this for a living.

Take what I say in the spirit with which I say it: as a gentle rebuke to not-so-cool coding. I'm not personally attacking you. After all, you are a perl coder, that makes you better than the rest of the world. :)

Special thanks to kudra. Between her and my new wife, I will be ready for public consumption in no time!

Update #2:

Once again, kudra proves to be wise beyond her years. here is a link to the post that started this trend. 

J. J. Horner
Linux, Perl, Apache, Stronghold, Unix
jhorner@knoxlug.org http://www.knoxlug.org/

In reply to Re: Weird array printing/passing to subroutine problem by jjhorner
in thread Weird array printing/passing to subroutine problem by dmtelf

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