Beyond what was already mentioned:

        @numberMutation = split(/\C/,$_);

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Are you sure you don't mean to use push() there instead of assignment? Assignment assigns a new list to an array (that is, it replaces the current list with another): 

@array = qw(one two three);
# @array contains "one", "two" and "three"

@array = qw(four five);
# @array now contains just "four" and "five"

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push() adds scalars to the end of an array, like this:

@array = qw(one two three);
# @array now contains "one", "two" and "three"

push(@array, qw(four five));
# @array now contains "one", "two", "three", "four" and "five"

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Also, why are you splitting $_ on \C? The \C metasymbol means match one byte exactly, not the capital letter "C" or a carriage return or anything else. If you want to match "C", the letter, then just get rid of the backslash. If you want to match a carriage return, then binmode() the file handle before reading from it and use \015 instead of \C.

In reply to Re: Arrays not being manipulated by William G. Davis
in thread Arrays not being manipulated by aristotle73

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