in reply to Help with argument to a subroutine

I strong recomend you to read POD perlsub, by comand : 

perldoc perlsub

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Where you could see that any arguments passed in show up in the array @_, and you can use shift to get array values.

Solli Moreira Honorio
Sao Paulo - Brazil

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