I'm using Windows Subsystem for Linux Perl and I'm getting weird results when printing an array

while (scalar @list_words) {
  test_if_letters_are_included();
  foreach(@list_words) {
    print "$_\n";
  }
  my @array = qw(this that the other thing);
  say "@array";
  say "@list_words";

  say scalar @list_words;
}

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I truncated the output for brevity. Prints:

...ZONDA
ZONED
ZONES
ZOOID
ZOOKS
ZOOMS
ZOONS
ZORIS
ZOSMA
ZUDDA
ZULUS
ZUNIS
this that the other thing
 ZUNIS
8471

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Any guesses as why I would only get the last element of the @list_words array?

Even weirder yet. If I change "say" to "print" on the @array I get an output that is a mix of both arrays!

while (scalar @list_words) {
  test_if_letters_are_included();
  foreach(@list_words) {
    print "$_\n";
  }
  my @array = qw(this that the other thing);
  print "@array";
  say "@list_words";

  say scalar @list_words;
}

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Again, I truncated the output for brevity. Prints:


...ZONDA
ZONED
ZONES
ZOOID
ZOOKS
ZOOMS
ZOONS
ZORIS
ZOSMA
ZUDDA
ZULUS
ZUNIS
this that the other thing
 ZUNIShat the other thingABASE
8471

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"ABASE" is the index 14 of @list_words.

In reply to Bizarre Perl behavior? by Polymathic

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