arrays as arguments to functions

arrays as arguments to functions

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

is it possible to pass an array as an argument to a function and
if yes: How can I acchieve this?

Thank you very much for any help in advance!

Best regards,
mcc

Re: arrays as arguments to functions

[Peter Stephenson]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:58:12 +0100
<meino.cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> is it possible to pass an array as an argument to a function and
> if yes: How can I acchieve this?

It's not very comfortable: you just have to pass it by name and refer to
the variable by dereferencing the passed parameter.

% deref() { print ${(P)1}; print ${(P)1[-1]}; }
% array=(there once was a hacker named dave)
% deref array
there once was a hacker named dave
dave

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