in reply to Re^2: problems passing variables between subroutine
in thread problems passing variables between subroutines
look_through_file uses and updates $continue_tag, but the result is not usedThe value of $continue_tag gets passed out of the subroutine indeed and is immediately discarded because there is no variable to store it in.It is supposed to be used. When the end of file is reached the $continue_tag goes to "FALSE" and this gets passed out of the subroutine from which point the while loop (that makes the subroutine calls in the first place) is broken.
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