Again I would like to thank everyone for your efforts in understanding this problem at hand. I'll admit I'm still pretty unsure about arrays (I think I understand scalars and hashes much better, but I'm thinking that's probably pretty common) but after using them for a while it'll come to me.
Thanks for your help everyone.
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