Dear monks,

I am still struggling with sub routines. I have used a dummy variable again to see where my code is failing and it seems to fail at the end of my sub routine events. Why is it doing this? I tried using last, next, and until functions but these do not seem to fix the error 

use strict; 
use warnings; 
my $fin = "SELECTDAT2"; 
my $fout = "myfile"; 
open my $ih, '<', $fin or die "cannot open $fin for reading, $!"; 
open my $oh, '>', $fout or die "cannot open $fout for writing, $!"; 
 
sub events {   
       
    my @tokens = split; 
    my @list = @tokens[0,3,4,7,8]; 
    push @list;

} 
while (<$ih>) { 
chomp; 
    my @tokens = split; 

    my @records = @tokens [3,4,5,6,10,11]; 
    push @records; 
 
my $y = $tokens[0]; 
my $m = $tokens[1]; 
my $d = $tokens[2]; 
my $h = $tokens[3]; 
events; 
last; 
} 
print $oh events, "\n", @$_ for sort {$a->[3] <=> $b->[3]} @records; 
close ($oh); 
close ($ih);

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