Thanks for the replies. After walking away i thought about using DataDumper to view the contents of the array and indeed I verified, as y'all have done that the $MMANS was manipulating the array size. Thanks for the responses

$VAR17 = undef;
$VAR18 = undef;
$VAR19 = undef;
$VAR20 = undef;
$VAR21 = undef;
$VAR22 = undef;
$VAR23 = undef;
$VAR24 = undef;
$VAR25 = undef;
$VAR26 = undef;
$VAR27 = undef;
$VAR28 = undef;
$VAR29 = undef;
$VAR30 = undef;
$VAR31 = [];
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