I have written a script that will connect to my SQL 2k DB and pull a random image form a random table. All works well and fine execpt that at some point, and I am not sure where, $gallery gets propergated with 'ffxi' and screws everything up. 
#!/user/bin/perl -w
use CGI q~:standard~;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use strict;
use DBI;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my ($dbh, $sth, $haveimage, @games, @holder, $gallerynumber, $gallery,
+ @imghold, @images, 
$imagenumber, $image, $groupname, $test);
$haveimage = 'No';
$dbh = DBI -> connect ('dbi:ODBC:read', 'uid', 'pass') or die "$DBI::e
+rrstr;";
$sth = $dbh -> prepare (q~select table_name from FFImages.information_
+schema.tables where table_catalog = 'FFImages' and table_type = 'Base
+ Table' and table_name != 'dtproperties' and table_name != 'avatars'~
+) or die "$DBI::errstr;";
$sth -> execute() or die "$DBI::errstr;";
while (@holder = $sth -> fetchrow_array){
    @games = (@games, @holder);
}
do {
    $gallerynumber = int(rand(@games));
    $gallery = $games[$gallerynumber]; #There are 48 possible results 
+for $Gallery
    $sth = $dbh -> prepare (qq~select ImageName from FFImages.dbo.$gal
+lery~) or die "$DBI::errstr;";
    $sth -> execute() or die "$DBI::errstr;";
    while (@imghold = $sth -> fetchrow_array){
        @images = (@images, @imghold);
    }
    if ($images[0] ne ''){#Right now the only $gallery results that wo
+uld return true here are 'ffac' and 'ffxi'
        $imagenumber = int(rand(@images));
        $image = $images[$imagenumber];
        $sth = $dbh -> prepare(qq~select GroupName from FFImages.dbo.$
+gallery where ImageName = '$image'~) or die "$DBI::errstr;"; #Everyth
+ing is working fine up to and including this part, after here no matt
+er what was in $gallery it is not longer there
        $sth -> execute() or die "$DBI::errstr;";
        $groupname = $sth -> fetchrow_array;
        print qq~<img src="http://admin.ffinfo.com/cgi-bin/fileprotect
+ion/fileprotection.pl/$image?file=images/$gallery/$groupname/$image" 
+style="max-height: 143px; max-width: 143px" alt="Random Final Fantasy
+ Image" />~; #At this point $gallery now contains 'ffxi' even if it d
+id not before hand.
        $haveimage = 'Yes';
    }
} while ($haveimage ne 'Yes');
$dbh -> disconnect();

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Can anyone tell me why $gallery is changed twords the end of the script when I never change it, at least I can not see it changing.

In reply to Where in the world is it getting 'ffxi' at? by Eagle_f90

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