Thanks for your help Swiftone.

Ok, here's what I've done. I copied the aml_read line with hardcoded variables inside the loop and it didn't work. Then I put the same line before the loop and it seemed to work. Here is what the code looks like right now including what's commented out with the =cut: 

=cut
   $tty = qx{aml_read /l trace /h ftwaeipd0001 /a commproc /s "12/04/2
+000 07:00:00" /b "12/04/2000 08:00:00" /d all | egrep -c -e tty2};
=cut

   for ($i = $TTYFIRST; $i <= $TTYLAST; $i++) {
     Tty_check($i,$start_ts,$end_ts,$selectedserver);
   }

sub Tty_check {

   $tty_string = sprintf( "tty%d", $_[0] );
=cut
   $tty = qx{aml_read /l trace /h $_[3] /a commproc /s $_[1]  /b $_[2]
+ /d all | egrep -c -e $tty_string};
=cut
   $tty = qx{aml_read /l trace /h ftwaeipd0001 /a commproc /s "12/04/2
+000 07:00:00" /b "12/04/2000 08:00:00" /d all | egrep -c -e tty2};
   printf("<TR ALIGN=LEFT VALIGN=TOP>\n");
   printf("<TD>%s</TD>\n",$tty_string);
   chomp($tty);
   printf("<TD>%d</TD>\n",$tty);
   printf("</TR>\n");

}

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So it does appear that there is a problem with the loop, although yesterday I displayed the contents with the qq instead of qx inside the loop and got what I was expecting. What next?

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