Michael Gale <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am passing the reference of an to the subroutine, which using
: (shift) assigns the first scaler to my scaler array_ref. So now
: array_ref scaler is equal to the passed scaler allowing me to use
: array_ref as a reference.
:
: Correct ?
Yes, except you're misspelling 'scalar'. Perl places a
reference to @array into @_ when you call the subroutine. When you
use 'shift', you remove the first item from @_ (which is an array
reference) and set it to $array_ref.
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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