Hello Corion: Thank you so much for your prompt reply. You were of course 100% correct! That was the offending line. In the end I opted to keep everything in one array:

push @appendArr,([$idArr[$c],$command,$srcArr[$c],$destArr[$c],$cmdArg
+s]);
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and access it thus:

    foreach $fAppend (@appendArr) {
        print "is an array\n" if (ref($fAppend) eq "ARRAY");
        print "fAppend[0]=@$fAppend[0]\n";
        print "fAppend[2]=".(@$fAppend[2])->fileName()."\n";
        print "fAppend[2]=".(@$fAppend[2])->contents()."\n";
...
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If you have time and inclination, could you expound on what is going on with the referencing and typing?

I presume the original ZIP "member" object is a hash reference.

The array was originally passed through as a scalar \@ then plopped into a string.

And as you pointed out, it lost its array-ness and hash-ness when I pushed it in a string "...,$member,..." into @appendArr. How does that happen?

If you have any reading recommendations on these intricacies, I'd be pleased to receive them!

Thanks again for your help!

We are up and running.

Rgds

Steve