Hello: I am storing (concatenated into) the entire email header into a scalar called $header. Then I am calling a subroutine called parse_header and will be passing the contentns of $header to the sub. The question is hot to refer to the passed arg once the program hits the sub as in the fragment below.

# cat email_header.eml | ./parse_me.pl

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#!/usr/bin/perl
#
while (<STDIN>) {
    ..........
    $header .= $_;
    ..........
    # Passing $header as argument to sub
    &parse_header($header);
    ..........
}

sub parse_header {
    # How do I refer to the argument ($header)
    # passed to sub?  I want the whole contents
    # of ($header) to be passed.  Is it @_ or $_
    while (?????????)
    do this and that
}
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Thanks in advance, RV

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