Edit: actually, I prefer the suggestion as given by roboticus just below.

One approach would be to, you know... specify the things you want back - and in what order.

my ($locked, $expire) = get_user_info(
    loginid => $loginid,
    info => [qw(locked expire)]
);



# elsewhere...
sub get_user_info {
    my %args = @_;
    my $loginid = $args{loginid} or die "No login id";
    my @return;

    for my $return ( @{ $args{info} } ) {
        if ($return eq "locked") {
            my $locked = ...;
            push @return, $locked;
         }
         elsif ($return eq "pw_min_time") {
            my $pw_min_time = ...;
            push @return, $pw_min_time;
         }
         ...
         # I'm sure you get the pattern
    }

    return @return;
}
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