Re^3: error message in the end of the array looping?

If you try to return when not in a sub you get:

use strict;
use warnings;

return 10;
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Prints:

Can't return outside a subroutine at noname2.pl line 4.
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Re^4: error message in the end of the array looping? by dsheroh (Monsignor) on May 30, 2006 at 20:07 UTC
That warning didn't look familiar so I poked around a little on google and it turns out that I misremembered it backwards... The actual warning I was thinking of was "Exiting subroutine via next", for which the solution is to exit from the sub using `return` instead of `next`... So `return` was the cure for my half-remembered warning rather than the cause.	[reply] [d/l] [select]