Hello Jonathan,
JS> Okay I am getting this to almost work. However I get an error on this line in the
code you gave:
JS> &SortListItem(/%data,/%sortonly);
Sorry about this, but that is typo on my part. The line of
code you are getting an error on should actually look like this:
&SortListItem(\%data,\%sortonly);
To make a long story short you are passing references to the
variables, not the actually data. This is because when you pass data
to a sub-routine it becomes one big long list. When you pass 2 or
most lists (arrays or hashes) Perl won't assign the data correctly to
your new local varaibles within the sub-routine. That is why you have
the following lines of code inside the subroutine:
## Perl Code Segment Begins
sub SortListItem {
## I found another error, you don't need to include the
## $section in the first line of code for SortListItem
## It should look like this
my ($data,$sortonly) = @_; ## Assign references to strings
my $check;
my %data = %$data; ## A new hash from the reference
my %sortonly = %$sortonly; ## Same as above
## Perl Code Segment Ends
You pass references to string variables, and then create new
local hashes (in this case %data, %sortonly) from those references.
Sorry about the typo. Cheers.
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