>perl 848064_xyz.pl 'egal("20090316","7006")' 'egal(20090316,7006)' is $param at line 10 'egal(20090316,7006)' Line 11 $param: |'egal(20090316,7006)'| At 13, $test: 'egal(20090316,7006)' Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at 848064_xyz.pl line 22. ++++ > #### #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # OP says: Now I am calling the script : # 001: perl xyz.pl 'egal("20090316","7006")' my $param = shift; chomp $param; print "\n\n\t $param is \$param at line 10\n\n"; eval print $param; print "\n\tLine 11 \$param: |$param| \n"; sub egal { my $result; my @arg = @_; my $test = $arg[0]; print "\n At 13, \$test: $test\n\n"; my @test = grep (/$test/i, @arg); print "\t $test[0] \n"; print "++++"; if ($#test == $#arg) { $result = 'true'; } else { $result = 'false'; } return $result; print " $result\n"; } egal($param); # call the sub!