Some sorta of variable/array concat is happening here: 
$one = "YAR033W";
$two = "YAR033W";
@source = ("ITOCORE");
@exper = ("n/a");
print " ($one)($two)(@source)(@exper) \n";
parsed_pair($one, $two, @source, @exper);
...

sub parsed_pair
{
my ($one, $two, @source, @exper) = @_;
print " ($one)($two)(@source)(@exper) \n";

....
}

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The output I get is: 
 (YAR033W)(YAR033W)(ITOCORE)(n/a) 
 (YAR033W)(YAR033W)(ITOCORE n/a)()

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The two printouts should be exactly the same. I'm not even sure how to address this. Anyone have any idea why they're not?

In reply to weird variable concatenation by newatperl

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