Dear Monks,

I need your wisdom to understand why I am getting a SCALLAR(....) instead of the value I expect. Here is where I assign the returned value after I call the sub: 
sub confirm(){
        if($gGui{single}==1){
print "source variable BEFORE fix_path $gGui{original_source}\n";
                $gGui{original_source} = \&fix_path("$gGui{original_so
+urce}");
print "source variable AFTER fix_path $gGui{original_source}\n";
.
.
.

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This is the fix_path sub: 
sub fix_path{
        my ($path) = @_;
        my @patharray= split '/', $path;
        my @newpatharray;  
        $path = "";
        foreach (@patharray){
                $_ =~s/ /_/g;
                $_ .= "\\";
                push @newpatharray, $_;
        }#foreach
        foreach (@newpatharray){
                $path .= $_;
        }#foreach
        return $path;
}#fix_path

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With print statements, I was able to determine that the value sent to and returned by the fix_path are correct, but the second print statement give me SCALAR(0x3618594).
Any idea would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your time.
Claire

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