This foreach() will run several times, each time populating an array and putting a reference to it in a second array. When it finishes, however, all the references are to the same array (the last one to populate). I guess I could just split the array, pass it, then join it again, but that seems so bush league. Is there a better way? 
my $doc_num;
my $tmp_doc_num;
my @doc_nums;
my @doc;

foreach( @doc_nums ) {
    @doc = ();
    $doc_num = substr( $_, 0, 7 );
    foreach( @raw ) {
        @fields = split( /,/, $_ );
        if( $fields[0] eq "AIP65" ) {
            $tmp_doc_num = substr( $fields[5], 0, 7 );;
        } else {
            $tmp_doc_num = substr( $fields[4], 0, 7 );
        }
        ( $tmp_doc_num eq $doc_num ) ? push( @doc, $_ ) : next;
    }
    push( @docs, \@doc );
}

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Thanks in advance, Casey

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