[Brisbane-pm] Passing a Two-Dimensional Array to a sub in Perl 5.8.6

[Andrew Savige]

--- Martin Jacobs wrote:
> Can you pass a two-dimensional array to a sub via a reference in
> Perl 5.8.6?

Yes.

Maybe Data::Dumper can help clarify what's going on?

A simple example:

 use strict;
 use Data::Dumper;
 my @x;
 $x[2][3] = "elt23";
 print Dumper(\@x);

Notice that two dimensional arrays in Perl are essentially
just a one dimensional array of list references.

HTH,
/-\


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