Extracted from Pike v7.6 release 61 at 2005-12-30.
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Method Perl.Perl()->call()


Method call

mixed call(string name, mixed ... arguments)

Description

Call a Perl subroutine in a scalar context, and return the result if it is a simple value type. Unsupported value types are rendered as 0.

Parameter name

The name of the subroutine to call, as an 8-bit string.

Parameter arguments

Zero or more arguments to the function. Only simple value types are supported. Unsupported value types will cause an error to be thrown.