Dear Monks

I have developed a small script based heavily on the demo script 'demo.menu' which comes with the Curses 1.06 module. However, as soon as I try to build any menus dynamically from an array I get weird results. The code below demonstrates the problem :- 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Curses;

my @test_array;

push @test_array,"item 1|description 1";
push @test_array,"item 2|description 2";

my $count=0;

foreach $record (@test_array) {
    split /\|/,$record;
    $item=new_item($_[0],$_[1]);
    push @il,$item;
    push @pack,${$item};
};

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However the menu which appears looks something like :- 
---------------------------
| ->item 2 description 2  |
|   item 2 description 2  |
---------------------------
i.e. shows the 2nd (or last) item in the array twice. Can anybody explain why, or offer a better example script which makes use of the Curses module.

Many thanks

Myomancer

In reply to Curses curiosity by myomancer

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