[thelist] Perl references

Chris Marsh chris at ecleanuk.com
Wed Feb 19 09:08:01 CST 2003


Dear all

I have a newbie Perl question that is driving me up the wall. I have the
following:

for ($i = 0; $i < @week; $i++) {
	$week[$i]{DATE} = [ @date ];
	&incrementDate(\@date, 1);
}

sub incrementDate {
	my($date, $type) = @_;
	$date[3]++;
	return;
}

I want &incrementDate to reference original array @date and increment
index 3 for each pass of the loop, but I'm getting no errors but no
incrementing either. I suspect that it's my failure to grasp referencing
implementation in Perl, but I would appreciate *any* help here...

Many thanks.

Regards

Chris Marsh




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