I guess it would be better (also faster?) if it is done in the main program and not in a subroutine ...
A highly questionable guess IMHO. Reasonable factoring of code into subroutines certainly has the benefits of increased clarity and maintainability, encapsulation, etc., as you mention. The only speed advantage of inlining might be in a case in which you are calling a relatively simple function a gazillion times in a program. In the typical case, Perl call-return overhead vanishes into the background of a script.
(And yes, please see Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example.)
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Hi Bill and AnomalousMonk,
I will make sure to review this and keep it in mind for the next time I need help on some code and come back to post here.
In any case thank you all for the help with resolving the issues with the code.
Cheers guys!
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We almost never want your complete program. The code that you extract should be made into a complete program which includes enough data that we can run it and duplicate your problem. This can be harder than it sounds. Often this is exactly what you need to solve the problem yourself. I suspect that this is what happened to you.
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