Hi,
Once you hit a return statement in a subroutine it never returns back again so everything after the first return is ignored. It never actually gets to the 2nd and 3rd return statements. Try returning an array that contains the Player Name, Parents Name and Member ID.
Try something like 
sub format_email_text
{
my @arr;

$arr[0]=sprintf("%-30s %-50s","Player Name:",$player);
$arr[1]=sprintf("%-30s %-50s","Parent's Name:",$parent);
$arr[2]=sprintf("%-30s %-50s","Member ID:",$memberid);

return (@arr);
}

my @vals = format_email_text();
print "Player Name : " . $vals[0] . "\n";
print "Parent Name : " . $vals[1] . "\n";
print "Member ID : " . $vals[2] . "\n";

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Regards Paul

In reply to Re: Format text problem by thekestrel
in thread Format text problem by b310

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