sub check_mobiletype {
    my $destination = shift;
    if($destination =~ /^\+/ && $destination !~ /^\+{1}.*\D/) {
        my $id = get_contacts_id_by_mobilephone($destination)
            or return;
        my $phone = get_mobilephone($id)
            or return;
        return ($id, $phone);
    } elsif($destination =~ /\d/ && $destination !~ /\D/) {
        my $id = $destination;
        my $phone = $tcrm->get_mobilephone($id)
            or return;
        return ($id, $phone);
    }

    return;
}

my ($id, $phone) = check_mobiletype($destination)
    or die "ID not found";

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By using or instead of ||, you're checking the result of the assignment (the number of elements returned by its RHS) instead of the result of check_mobiletype. Returning an empty list from check_mobiletype will therefore trigger throwing the exception.

In reply to Re: refuses to return me 2 values from subroutines by ikegami
in thread refuses to return me 2 values from subroutines by PerlBroker

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