Actually I'm not sure I'm asking in the correct place, but I try my best. I have this snippet:

#!/bin/perl

use strict;

add_iLO3_data();
 
exit;

sub add_iLO3_data() {
    $_ = "Memory           | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x4080| na     
+   | na        | na        | na        | na        | na       ";
    chomp;
    my @fields = split(/\|/);
    my $name = $fields[0];
    $name =~ s/\s*//;
    $name =~ s/\s*$//;
    my $value = $fields[1];
    $value =~ s/\s*//;
    $value =~ s/\s*$//;
    my $status = $fields[3];
    $status =~ s/\s*//;
    $status =~ s/\s*$//;
    print "$name--$value--$status--\n";
#    add to database
    my $id = get_sensor_id($name);
    my @variables = ("sensor_id", "OperationalStatus", "CurrentReading
+");
    my @readings = ($id, $value, $status);
# here I add to DB
}


sub get_sensor_id($) {
    my $sensor = $_;
    print "sensor input: $sensor\n";
    return 0;
}
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and I get as output:

Memory--0x0--0x4080--
sensor input: Memory           | 0x0        | discrete   | 0x4080| na 
+       | na        | na        | na        | na        | na
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The goal of the complete script is to parse an output and save some log data to a sqlite3 database, I cut out most of it.

I would expect to get in $sensor only "Memory", since I pass the variable $name by value (I tried by reference as well) and, as shown in the first sub, the variable $name seemed fine.

Where am I wrong?

Thank you very much!

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