On Sep 6, Tobin, Elliot said: >sub setFields > { > my ($inBlock, @fieldList) = @_; > > foreach my $i (@fieldList) > { > push($inBlock->{'fields'}, $i);
You'd need to say push @{ $inBlock->{fields} }, $i; > } > > return $inBlock; > } But given your current function, it's far faster to say: sub setFields { my ($inBlock, @fieldList) = @_; $inBlock->{fields} = \@fieldList; } or perhaps sub setFields { my $inBlock = shift; $inBlock->{fields} = [ @_ ]; } -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]