subs and variables

[jamsman]

I have a script that reads information from a database and returns some variables (acutally lots of variables).
There is threee different sets of variables that could be returnd so i thought i would use a sub to only initialise the required ones. The problem is that i later need to use these variables and the error i get is that they are unintialised i know this is because they are declared only in the sub. Is therre away around this????

thank you for any ideas

 

[Cagliostro]

is this ok?:
($a, $b) = &dosomething;
print "$a $b";

sub dosomething
{
return ("hello", "world");
}

Ion Filipski

 

[jamsman]

ok thanks that seems to work ok for the moment

cheers