In what order does a program run..??

From: Richard C 1 (Richard.C.1_at_bwc.state.oh.us)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 10:52:19 -0500
To: <beginners@perl.org>

I'm new to PERL and am trying to learn by reading some PERL programs.

My question is this - does PERL execute sequentially and "skip around"
embedded subroutines or
Does it execute them inline?

For example, if the program has the following set of code lines

Line1
Line2
Line3
Sub1
Subcode1
Subcode2
Endsub1
Line4
Line5
Line6 calls sub1
Line7

Does the execution sequence go like this:

Line1, line2, line3 line 4 line5, line6, sub1, subcode1, subcode2,
endsub1 line7

Or does it go like this:

Line1, Line2, Line3, Sub1, Subcode1, Subcode2, Endsub1, Line4, Line5,
Line6, Sub1, Subcode1, Subcode2, Endsub1, Line7

Thanks.

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