Okay, But attempting the call this way will result in the file opening handle to be replaced with the count of the array. 
sub fLoadModules {
    my ($modules) = @_;
    my @array;
    open my $fh, "<", $modules or die "Couldn't open module file: $mod
+ules";
    while(<$fh>) {
        chomp;
        my ($module_id) = split /;/;
        push @array, $module_id;
    }
    close $fh;
    return @array;
}

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In the scope of this, when you call the sub via  my @other = fLoadModules($modules); it will try to open the array count instead of the file. This had come up in my previous investigation/testing before I turned to the good people of perl monks for answers.

In reply to Re^4: Perl variable scoping between functions by Bryan882
in thread Perl variable scoping between functions by Bryan882

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