Move "my( $fred, $barney );" into the subroutine, and assign the parameter list to it, like this:

sub max {
  my( $fred, $barney ) = @_;
  print "You are using the subroutine max.\n";
  #....etc...

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The issue is that you're never unpacking any arguments inside of the sub, so $fred and $barney are never assigned a value. The other problem is that currently $fred and $barney are being declared at the wrong scope.

To avoid confusing behavior, your subroutine ought to also be returning a value explicitly, rather than relying on the behavior of returning the value of the last expression to be evaluated. It will work, but I never like seeing return values being created inside of an if/else block without explicitly using "return" as a visual cue of what's going on.


Dave

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