On Nov 1, 11:35 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles) wrote:
> Three days of head-banging....
An hour of FAQ and Documentation reading would have been more
productive...
> the Boss has my walking papers if I don't "get'er done"!
>
> I have module from CPAN named Graph. I have created a subroutine for
> this to pass in two arrays; x-axis and y-axis into my Graph subroutine
> i.e. ; &graph( @Xvalues, @Yvalues );
>
> My confusions is: in my subroutine, I cannot treat the two parameters
> (arrays) as separate parameters. Therefore both arrays @Xvalues
> @Yvalues are seen as one big string of numbers when I pass them.....
> everything is one one axis, the x-axis.
perldoc -q "How can I pass"
perldoc perlsub
In short, pass references to the arrays, and derfeference them in the
subroutine.
sub take_two {
my ($x_ref, $y_ref) = @_;
my @x = @{$x_ref};
my @y = @{$y_ref};
# . . .
}
#....
take_two([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]);
Paul Lalli
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