On Oct 9, stanley said: >sub givename(%a)
DO NOT try to put variables in the declaration of a function. Unless you are into HEAVY MAGIC, your subroutine declarations (or definitions) should look like sub function_name { # ... } No () there. When you CALL the function, THEN you use (). foobar(%x); sub foobar { my %copy_of_x = @_; # ... } -- 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]