Ugh, I feel like a total moron. I got errors when I originally tried doing $dbm{blah}++ rather than storing them into variables and putting it back together. I'm chosing your way as it's so much quicker to write and you don't have to fuss with making so many extra variables. My way WASN'T wrong, lol, just not as right as your's :P

I think the error was $lost was undefined afterall, but with your method I didn't need to use variables as a dbm key.

Thanks for your help!

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