Perl: Passing an Array of Hashes as a Parameter to a Sub

[wswartzendruber]

I can't for the life of me figure out how to do this.
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[gentoo_ram]

The short answer is, you really can't. But you can pass an array of hash references. Then dereference the hash references in your sub.

[wswartzendruber]

Thank you, sir.
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[desultory]

Are you sure that you want to pass an array (@foo) not an array reference(\@foo), or more safely a reference to a copy of the array (\[@foo])?

The perldsc, perlref and perlreftut man pages (or perdocs if you prefer) have more information should you need it.

[sundialsvc4]

It's always "a hashref." Or, "an arrayref."

There is, as you may expect, "more than one way to write it." But in any case, you are passing a reference to an array|hash containing references to arrays|hashes.

[desultory]

When you pass an array it is taken as, a slice of, the argument list, which has rather different implications than passing a reference to it.