Hello all

I have sort of a weird question. It's probably obvious, but I just need clarification. Say if I have a small script that is split up into subroutines and the program is run by calling those subs like: 

split_logfile();
gen_stats();
compress_logs();
clean_up();

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't Perl execute the sub split_logfile() and when it's finished, execute gen_stats(), and so on? It seems like when I run the script, split_logfile doesn't complete before gen_stats gets run, which breaks everything. But, if I just run split_logfile() it works perfectly. It's almost as if all the subroutines are executed at the same time...

If anyone can help clarify this I'd be quite grateful.

Thanks

Brendon

In reply to Calling functions by brendonc

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