Martin Tournoij wrote:
: I'm currently massivly confused by multidimensional arrays and
: passing arrays to subs.
:
: Why is it that @_[1] isn't properly copied to @a?
It is properly copied. Because @_[1] one is a scalar and
@a is an array the reference to the passed array in stored in
$a[0].
: Music($var1, [EMAIL PROTECTED]);
:
: sub Music
: {
: print $_[1][1]; # works
: my @a = @_[1] # Gives warning, should be written as $_[1]
So stop writing it as @_[1], silly. :)
my $var = shift;
my $array_ref = shift;
: print $a[1]; # Outputs ARRAY(#memaddr)
print @{ $array_ref };
: print $a[1][1]; # Works
:
: for (@a)
for ( @{ $array_ref } ) {
HTH,
Charles K. Clarkson
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