I'm back again, struggling with some basics (I have read up on this but I just can't figure it). I will post code below but in a nutshell I pass a string to a function and do stuff, then return a variable. The problem is if, at the end of the function I use: 
print $title;

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I can see the result in the perl script I called the function from. However, if I use:
return $title;

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I can't use that $title back in the script I called it from. There is no error (I am using strict) it just seems the string is empty.
The code I use is below: 
foreach my $j (@fucntion64)
            {
            if(substr($j,0,2) eq "AU") {
            my($item,$title) = split(' ',substr($j,2),2);
            return $title."<br />";
            }

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If I change that return to print, the function prints the correct result back in the script. If I use return, then try and print $title from the script, I get nothing!

In reply to Functions (Return V Print) by packetstormer

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