I am quite sure there is a simple reason for this but it is beyond me. The code below prints the uid as expected from within the foreach loop. However, it will not print it in the subroutine. Why not and how can I fix it? 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my $uid;
my @array = ("one","two","three");

foreach $uid (@array){
  print "uid in loop=$uid\n";
  # prints each value of $uid as expected
  &mail($uid);
}

sub mail {
  # never prints the value of $uid ? ?
  print "uid in sub=$uid\n";
}

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In reply to Scalar Value Not Available To Subroutine by Anonymous Monk

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