Add two arrays
examples/references/add_arrays.pl
#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; my @first = (2, 3); my @second = (7, 8, 5); my @res = add(\@first, \@second); # passing two references print "@res\n"; sub add { my ($one_ref, $two_ref) = @_; my @one = @{ $one_ref }; # dereferencing and copying each array my @two = @{ $two_ref }; my @result; foreach my $i (0..@one-1) { if (defined $two[$i]) { push @result, $one[$i] + $two[$i]; } else { push @result, $one[$i]; } } foreach my $i (@one..@two-1) { push @result, $two[$i]; } return @result; }