----- Original Message -----
From: Felix Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:48 am
Subject: looking a one liner "to return the value while clearing the argument"
> Hi,
Hello
>
> Is there "a one liner" that performs the equivalent of
usualy a "one liner" , is something that you from your shell, interest in how
this can be used properly from the shell. You probebly mean, a shorter way of
writing your function ??
>
> sub ReturnAndClear {
> my $temp=$_[0];
> $_[0]=undef;
> return $temp;
> };
>
#you should call this (\SCALAR)
sub ReturnAndClear{ return $_[0] && undef ${$_[0]} }
> TIA
>
> felix li
>
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