I am learning perl recently, but I don`t think that there is some common in statemetns like: 

return $someval;
print $someval;

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They are both doing a different things, however, it`s a bit strange since Larry says that actually return can be omitted so the statement: 

sub a {
   print $variable;
  }
sub b {
    $variable;
   }

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supposed to have a dafault return statement so I am not sure if sub a is actually returning a print with a parameter or not. Well, as a former C user, I am returning a strings with : 

sub a {
   return sprintf("%s", $_[0]);
 }

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for example... but it`s Perl... there is more than 1 way to do it.

In reply to Re: Print Vs Return In a Subroutine by heatblazer
in thread Print Vs Return In a Subroutine by remya

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