I've been hacking at a bit of code for a bit now and am pretty well (brain faded) stumped. I'm getting an "not an array reference at line <line>" error.

i'm getting the error when attempting to work out if one number is greater than another 
1) print "email:  ${$self->{_product}}->[0]{EMAIL} \n";
2) print "total: (scalar(keys  %{$self->{_alllogins}}))\n";
3) if (  ${$self->{_product}}->[0]{EMAIL} > (scalar(keys %{$self->{_al
+llogins}})) ) {

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lines 1 and 2 (above) evaluate to 5, 7 respectivley.
The interesting bit is if i reverse the operator the error goes away, (but is not condition i am after).
i've even tried: 
1) my $allowable = scalar( ${$self->{_product}}->[0]{EMAIL});
2) my $current   = (scalar(keys  %{$self->{_alllogins}}));
3) if ($current ge $allowable) {

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to no avail. I just cant work out why, when i reverse the condition, the error message goes away. I'm using 5.005_03. Someone please tell me i've got a wet fish problem here... :-)

.R

In reply to problem with le and gt by Ryszard

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