I've got a subroutine that I'm trying to use return's in. At first I tried returning a value with return(0); or return(1); which did not seem to work. For the most part, if I just use return; it does work EXCEPT as noted in the code below. What am I not understanding about returns or What did I mess up? *note only one value is passed to the subroutine, a userid.* 
sub CheckDeployed
{
 chomp (my $id = $_);
 my $deployedcounter = 0;
 foreach (<@deployeduid>)
 {
  chomp $_;
  if ( $id eq $_ )
    {
      print "I found $id in the deployedfile with the timestamp of $de
+ployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter]\n";
      my $temptime = time;
      # Set comparetime to current time - 4 days
      my $comparetime = ($temptime - 86400 * 3);

         if ($deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter] < $comparetime)
            {
            my $oldtime = $deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter];
            chomp ($deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter] = $temptime);
            print TEMPDEPLOYED "$id $deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounte
+r] 2\n" or die $!;
            return; ### Jumps back to if ( $id eq $_ ) not sure why.
            } else {
        chomp $deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter];
        print TEMPDEPLOYED "$id $deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter] 1
+\n" or die $!;
            return;
            }
           $deployedcounter++;
          }  elsif ( $_ ne "" )
              {
        #reserved for possible processing
               }
      $deployedcounter++
      }
      my $temptime = time;
      chomp ($deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter] = $temptime);
      print TEMPDEPLOYED "$id $deployedtimestamp[$deployedcounter] 1\n
+" or die $!;
      return;
}

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