in reply to Re^2: I'm getting some weird error
in thread I'm getting some weird error

Perl offers two ways to dereference (most) datatypes. Same for hashes and arrays.

You mixed both (and Corion explained what happend)

See perlreftut and References quick reference for more.

Cheers Rolf
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