Your welcome. Chock the %newh up to cruft. Originally I thought that was the problem. Thinking it was referencing a value that was getting GC'ed. Copying %h suppressed the "Can't return a temporary from lvalue subroutine" but it just failed silently. Then I fixed val so you are correct. The temp assignment is not neccassary.

-Lee

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