Hi all, This sub (findTheTypeByTheName) returns null(last line, b4 closing curly)I want to use this null in a function to print "Name not found in the code named function below. 
#-----------------------------------------------------------
sub findTheTypeByTheName{    
        my $tree = $_[0];
        my $name = $_[1];#$name is each line from the config file
        my $assignment = $tree->{assignment};#$assignment is an array

#-----------------------------------------------------------
Function:
#open Config file
open(TXTDOC, $ARGV[1]) || die "Cant open file" . $ARGV[1] . " for comp
+aring!\n"; 
    while (<TXTDOC>){
            my $name = $_;
            chomp $name;#remove newlines 
            $name=~s/(\s+)\z//;#rem white space 
            $typeMatched = findTheTypeByTheName($tree,$name);
            prettyPrintTheType($typeMatched);
            my $noName = null;#tried to assign to scalar
            if ($noName){
                print "$name . "Is not matched to an ASN name";
            }
    }
        foreach $theAssignment (@$assignment) {
            if ($name eq $theAssignment->{ident}{__VALUE__}) {
                return $theAssignment->{type};
                }
        }
         return null;
}

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thx 4 the help

In reply to using return types by Brother Sharky

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