Russell Davies wrote:
> ; Simple Q,
> ;
> ; My perl script has a function and I want to return two
> ; arrays from the function. I found that I can't just assign
> ; the return values like this;
> ;
> ; (@A, @B) = readData();
> ;
> ; sub readData
> ; {
> ; # get data and create @A and @B
> ; return (@A, @B);
> ; }
>
> Don't do that. In order to do what you want, you need to be using
> array references.
> return \(@a, @b);
Ah. I had tried return (\@A, \@B); but got references back
ie
ARRAY(0x80d721c)1 ARRAY(0x80d7234)
> man perlref.
Great. I had tried perldoc -q ref and various incantations
but no use.
perlref refers me also to perlreftut for a tutorial and will
read up on this and get back.
Thanks
Mike
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