"Halkyard, Jim" wrote: Hi Jim,
It is better if you don't top-post. > Hi Malik, > > If you pass a reference to the array as the first argument as below you can > keep the array separate from the other arguments you are passing. > > @abc = qw(1 2 3); > $x = 4; > $y = 5; > > testsub([EMAIL PROTECTED], $x, $y); > > sub testsub($$$) > { > ($abc, $x, $y) = @_; > print "Array @$abc\n"; > print "x $x\n"; > print "y $y\n"; > } Thank you for using the clear scalar syntax in your prototype. Joseph -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>