Flame blinks.
Flame blinks again.
Flame stares at code with open mouth and looks ready to start hitting delete repeatedly.
Flame restrains himself from hitting delete repeatedly.
Flame settles down to explain his foolish mistake.

Ok... I figured out what threw me off. I was using Devel::ptkdb to try to trace down a problem (I'll get to it in a min), when I noticed that the variables being passed were all "\####", when they were suppost to be references (Makes me wonder if you can change the constant of a number... think about it... my $num = \1; $$num = 543;  print 1; Anyway, so that explains the appearance that it wasn't really a reference. As to the actual problem... I was using $$_[0] to try to access the data within the sub, and that doesn't work... need ${$_[0]}.

Anyway, thanks for helping me cut my debug time significantly by convincing me that what I was sure was the problem, wasn't.

Edit:: Added link to Devel::ptkdb reference.

My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.

Flame ~ Lead Programmer: GMS (DOWN) | GMS (DOWN)

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