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in reply to Basic Perl passing a temp array

change this line: 
addHost('aklia700',qw(carrot lunch));

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to 
addHost('aklia700',[qw(carrot lunch)]);

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have a look at perldoc perlref (what you are wanting is an anonymous array)

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