Since we are here to refine our perl skills, I cannot add anything ot the answers already given, but I can ask why you are using positional parameters?

It may be me ( my mind is like a steel trap... rusted open ) but I have an awful time remembering arbitrary order like this. I have found it much easier on myself to use named parameters instead. This also allows a much nicer syntax to give errors or default values.

My take on your code would be 

@AllFileDetails[0] = "blah, blah, blah";
@AllFileDetails[1] = "foo, bar, diddledum";

print "Printing array.\n";

print @AllFileDetails;

print "\nCalling subroutine now\n";

&WriteToDisk(details => \@AllFileDetails,
         filename => 'files.txt');

exit;

sub WriteToDisk
{
    my %params = @_;

    my @arraytowrite = @{$params{details}} || ();
    my $writefile    = $params{filename}   || '';
    my $text         = $params{text}       || 'no text';

    unless ( @arraytowrite && $writefile ) {
    print "Usage: WriteToDisk( filename => file to use,
                   details  => reference to an array holding the detai
+ls
              ";
    return 0;
    }
          
    print "\nInside the subroutine 'WriteToDisk' now.\n";
    print "Printing array.\n";

    print @arraytowrite;
          
    exit;
          
    open HANDLE,$writefile or die "Cannot open open output file $write
+file for writing:$!\n";            
          
    print HANDLE $ReportGenerated;
    print HANDLE @arraytowrite;
    close HANDLE;
}

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This way, you never need to memorize the call order. Also notice the slight changes I made to the open HANDLE statement. You really want to use parens around both the open and the die arguements combined with ||, or you want to forget all the parens and use 'or'. Don't mix.

Mik Firestone ( perlus bigotus maximus )

In reply to RE: Weird array printing/passing to subroutine problem by mikfire
in thread Weird array printing/passing to subroutine problem by dmtelf

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