Hi Monks,

I am looking to call a couple of subroutines within a conditional. Something like: 

my $starting_point;
my $continue_tag = "TRUE";


while ($continue_tag == "TRUE"){
    
    look_through_file ($starting_point, $continue_tag);
    create_output     (@array_of_lines, $entry_no_new);
 


}

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However I get the following error message: 


main::look_through_file() called too early to check prototype at recei
+ve_annotations_B.pl line 47.

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Basically the $continue_tag may switch to 'FALSE' within the subroutine. At which point I was hoping that the subroutine would no longer be called. Have I made an obvious error in my assumptions?

In reply to Calling a subroutine within a conditional by Freezer

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