How can be the return value from a subroutine saved in global array

[gautam chaurasia]

i tired like this, so it should get list of genes from subroutine gene and
should print all the entries of array. but it gets only a single value. could
someone please tell me where and what am i doing wrong...

my $twig= new XML::Twig();
$twig->parsefile( "local.xml");

my $gene_list= $twig1->root;
my @genes= $gene_list->children;

chomp (my $qname = <STDIN>);

sub gene{
        foreach my $gene ( @genes) {

        my $l_name  = $gene->first_child( 'Localization');
        my $y_name  = $gene->first_child( 'Yorf');
        my $g_name  = $gene->first_child( 'Genename');

        my $local_name  = $l_name->text;
        my $yorf_name   = $y_name->text;
        my $gene_name   = $g_name->text;

                if ($local_name eq  $qname) {
                return($yorf_name);
                }
        }
}

@sname =[];
@sname = gene();
print @sname;

Thanks in advance
Gautam

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