++rchiav!!!

Thats sounds like a damn good analysis to me.

Each time the line in question is accessed, @ary is redeclared (blank). This even happens when the line is executed just for <DATA> to return false. So the last iteration redeclares @ary, there's no more DATA and the program moves on.

I really have to get the debugger frame of mind happening, I almost never use it, preferring copious print statements and the like, but as you have done here it can work wonders.

You might not consider yourself to be god/wizard level but I think this ones worth a bunch of votes. Good play sir!

Yves
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