[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Gurus,
>
> Is it possible for a subroutine to return both a scalar (an integer,
> specifically) *and* a reference to an array of arrays?
>
> Current code returns just the array ref, with the scalar push-ed onto
> the end of the referenced array. I'm hoping to get rid of the kludge,
> and I've not found much help in the camel (LITWP, maybe?). Here's
> sample code:
>
> # sub adds a row to the passed array (of arrays) and returns it, along
> with incremented counter
> sub add_row {
> my ($counter, @ary) = @_;
>
> # do stuff to @ary...
>
> # add scalar to @ary:
> push( @ary, ++$counter );
>
> return( [EMAIL PROTECTED] );
> }
>
> # sample call:
> @added_stuff = @{ add_row( $out_count, @added_stuff) };
> $out_count = pop( @added_stuff );
>
> I know there's gotta be a cleaner way to do this, but my brain's
> frozen on this one.
>
You could do something like this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @ary = qw(1 2 3);
my $oldcount = 5;
my ($count, $ref_ary) = add_row($oldcount, @ary);
@ary = @{$ref_ary};
print "ary is now: ", join(', ', @ary), " count is $count\n";
sub add_row {
my ($counter, @ary) = @_;
# do stuff to @ary...
# add scalar to @ary:
push( @ary, ++$counter );
return($counter, [EMAIL PROTECTED] );
}
Or this, if you don't have to return a reference to an array.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my @ary = qw(1 2 3);
my $oldcount = 5;
my $count;
($count, @ary) = add_row($oldcount, @ary);
print "ary is now: ", join(', ', @ary), " count is $count\n";
sub add_row {
my ($counter, @ary) = @_;
# do stuff to @ary...
# add scalar to @ary:
push( @ary, ++$counter );
return($counter, @ary );
}
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