> And if variable scoping would solve my percieved problem,
    > understand that the issue of my vs. local is something I
    > don't grok yet. I completely understand my, but local
    > escapes me.

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    > The odd thing is that I ran something like this, with
    > -w and use strict;, and it worked! Why? Should it have
    > worked?