On Apr 10, Richard Heintze said:
>I'm passing a singularly dimensioned array to a
>function. I need to clear the array in the function so
>that when I return to the main program, there are no
>entries in the array variable I passed to the
>function.
You have to pass the array by reference, then.
my @array = (1 .. 4);
print "(@array)\n"; # (1 2 3 4)
my_func([EMAIL PROTECTED]);
print "(@array)\n"; # ()
sub my_func {
my $array_ref = shift;
@$array_ref = ();
}
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