WhenI looked at your code, I wondered that you didn't have parentheses when you call mysub1, but it slipped past me all the same, until I did what you should have done, run the code in the debugger.

&mysub2(mysub1) invokes mysub2 with the text 'mysub1'; so @array is not empy.

If you used

use strict;

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as you should, you would have been provided the warning

Bareword "mysub1" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at <file, lin
+e number>

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Even without that warning, if you're confused that mysub2() is following the wrong path, the obvious thing to do is to find out what @array DOES contain, since it doesn't contain what you expect it to. You could print out what @_ contains at the routine entrty point, in which situation Data::Dumper is your friend.

use Data::Dumper;
sub mysub2 {
    print STDERR Dumper( \@_ ), "\n";
    my @array = @_;

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will let you see things are not as you thought.

Or you could use your debugger. I prefer debugging from emacs (M-x perldb) but not everyone wants to spend the time to learn to use emacs. So use perl -d myscript, then type a letter 's' to 'single-step' into the mysub1() routine. "WOW! What are we doing in mysub2()?". Seeing the code elsewhere than you expected does a lot to guide your debugging ... :-)

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In reply to 'use strict', debugger, Data::Dumper by TomDLux
in thread sub returning undef by Scarborough

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