So, BioBoy, here's what I propose you do ... take the entire program you've currently got, and whittle it down to as few a number of lines that you can which still exhibit the error.  Make sure you have use strict; and use warnings; at the top, of course.  In making the problem smaller, you may discover the root cause yourself.  But if not, at least it will attract the attention of more people willing to look at a managable task.

Make sure that what you submit really is the entire program, though.  It won't do any good if you're making data assignments (or lack thereof) which aren't included.  Your end goal here should be for anyone to run the code you submit on their own system, and see the same problem.

Good luck! ... and I'll be waiting to help you out more when you're ready ...

In reply to Re: Understanding variable scope in perl by liverpole
in thread Understanding variable scope in perl by BioBoy

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