Hello Monks, I am trying to return an array with no luck. I would like to return @L1 but am not sure how to do this. I get a "Can't return outside a subroutine" error. Code is as follows: 

sub findLines;
    foreach $line (@data) {
        if ($line =~ /notice/) {
            if ($line =~ /rdy/) {
                $line =~ s/ /,/g;    
                @L1 = split(/|notice|[[]|,mpmstats:,|[\t]|rdy,|bsy,|rd
+,|wr,|ka,|log,|dns,|cls,/, $line);                    
                return @L1;        
                        }
                    }
                }

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The array contains this: 

 
Wed,Jun,13,01:00:29,2012,777,23,0,15,6,0,0,2
Wed,Jun,13,01:01:29,2012,782,18,0,14,3,0,0,1
Wed,Jun,13,01:02:29,2012,787,13,0,10,3,0,0,0

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What I would like to do is iterate through the array in another subroutine. What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Returning Array by Anonymous Monk

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