Returning Multiple Arrays

[jazee]

Any clean way for a function to return more than one array? I use to do this in Perl by returning multiple values which were references to the arrays. I don't want to use global variables though.

[laserlight]

Well, you could return an array of arrays.

But like you said, a more common method is so pass the arrays by reference.

[kevinc]

It's not the best coding practice to want to return TWO arrays when an array of arrays will suffice.

Just :

return array($array1,$array2);

Then:

$stuff = function();
$array1 = $stuff[0];
$array2 = $stuff[1];

There's probably a simpler way to do it 😉