I think you will find that it is the use of @whenfound in the: 

unless ($found == undef) {
        return $whenfound[$subarg[2]]}
    else {return 0}

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The problem is that you have declared my @whenfound in a different lexical scope to the one that you are using it there in - it's not a problem early in the code as those uses are the same scope as the declaration. Because you are not using strict the out-of-scope reference to @whenfound is assumed to be to the package variable @main::whenfound to which this is the only reference and hence the warning.

The bottom line, as everyone else has pointed out, is that you should have used strict

/J\

In reply to Re: Confused about 'Name "main::whenfound" used only once:' by gellyfish
in thread Confused about 'Name "main::whenfound" used only once:' by Maze

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