Greetings ,
I have run into a problem while writing @arrays to a subroutine. I am concantenating the result from the subroutine words() to four different tables.
The first 2 lines return the correct results without any problem the second 2 lines produce an endless loop. 
$table_one .= words(\@data_one);
$table_two .= words(\@data_two);

$table_three .= words(\@data_three);
$table_four .= words(\@data_four);

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The loop that is getting stuck is where the HTML for the tables is concantenated and later returned. I had added 3 print statements in the loop and the print statement that keeps looping is "we are in MAIN loop".

Thanks You for any help
Cal 
while ($count < $elements) {
print ("we are in MAIN loop\n");
while ($tr++ < $cols) {
$test .=  "<tr>";print ("we are in TR loop\n"); 
my $tc=0;
while ($tc++ < $rows) {

$test .="<td width='25%'align='left'>".(@{$ref}[$count]).'</td>'."\n";
print ("we are in tc loop\n");$count++
         } # MAIN loop
      } $test .=  "</tr>";  # tr loop
  }      # td loop

    $test .=  "</tr>";

} else {#do something else}

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In reply to problem with endless loop by Anonymous Monk

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