From: Stefan Kruger <stefan.kruger@...>
Date: 2008-11-10T23:05:58+09:00
Subject: Passing array instead of individual parameters?

[New to this fine language, from a Perl background]

I expected (wrongly) the following to work -

def myroutine(one, two, three)
    puts "first: #{one} second: #{two} third: #{three}"
end

myroutine('brave', 'new', 'world') # as expected

# The unexpected (to me)

myparamlist = ['brave', 'new', 'world']

myroutine(myparamlist) # fails

So, my question is - is there a way of calling a routine expecting N
parameters with a list containing N elements instead?

Specifically, using the dbi module, I expected to be able to say:

sth.prepare("insert into foo (one, two, three) values (?, ?, ?)")
sth.execute(my_list_of_three_values)

but instead I need to loop through the list and bind each one in turn?

Many thanks,

stefan

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Stefan Kruger <stefan.kruger@gmail.com>