7.2 Returning Values

Perhaps we did not want our new subroutine to actually print the message. Instead, we would like it to return the string of the message, and then we will call print on it.

This is very easy to do with the return statement.

use strict;
sub HowdyEveryone {
   return "Hello everyone.\nWhere do you want to go with Perl today?\n";
}
print &HowdyEveryone;