>was that a better explaination?

Much better, but I'm still baffled.

One thing -- you don't need to escape the quotes in your s/\"//g -- if that's something other than a quote, I guess something weird could be happening...

OK get your script to print out like this: 


print "first item in the array is $myArray[0] \n";
print "doing the replace: \n";

if($myArray[0] =~ s/"//g){
  print "it happened\n";
} else {
  print "nothing to replace, apparently\n";
}

print "first item in the array is now $myArray[0] \n";

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and see what that says. It's either uppercase or lowercase, it can't be both...
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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Case change... why did this happen? by Cody Pendant
in thread Case change... why did this happen? by AssFace

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