hi i just a new be to perl and i trying to put mycode into subroutines and i having trouble passing two arrays and threre scalars to a subroutine i no it prob something simple.. heres my code: 
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Socket;
use Net::SNMP;
use GD::Graph::lines;

#function to print out a graph to screen using gd::graph

sub print_graph#prints the graph to screen
{

        my $q = new CGI;
        my ($xarray,$values,$xlabel,$ylabel,$title) = shift(@_);
        my @data = ($xarray,$values);
        my $graph = new GD::Graph::lines(500,350);
        $graph->set
        (
        x_label => $xlabel,
        y_label => $ylabel,
        title => $title,
        x_label_skip => 'auto',
        y_label_skip => 'auto',
        line_width => 1,
        y_tick_number => 8,
        x_labels_vertical => 1,
        x_label_position => 1/2,
        transparent => 0,
        );
        my $gd_image = $graph->plot(\@data);
        print $q->header(-type => "image/png");
        binmode STDOUT;
        print $gd_image->png;
}

        my $graphxlabel = "Time";
        my $graphylabel = "No. Of Packets Recieved";
        my $graphtitle = "No. Of Packets Recieved On Interface";


#function call        print_graph(\@x_axis_array,\@values_array,\$grap
+hxlabel,\$graphylabel,\$graphtitle);

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where the two arrays @x_axis_array and @values_array have been previously filled in a while loop this code had been working before i tried to put it in a while loop so i no that the values are been filled into the arrays properly.. tanx in advance tommycahir

In reply to passing multiple items to a subroutine by tommycahir

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