That works like a charm. Thanks very much for the help!

I have another thing...of course...the life of a noobie

I want to now make @ind, @chroma @chromb interactive for each population

I call the sub with 
for my $poper (1 .. $popCt) 
{
input();
gener(@chroma, @chromb, @ind);
}

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Here is the sub... 
sub input
{
    my ($upper, $lower);
    my $center = 1;
    print 'Enter lower bound: ';
    chomp ($lower = <STDIN>);
    print 'Enter upper bound: ';
    chomp ($upper = <STDIN>);
    my $ranpop;
    while ($center--) 
    {
        $ranpop = int rand($upper - $lower + 1) + $lower;
        print $ranpop . "\n";    
        
    my @ind = (1...$ranpop);
    my $limiter = 50;
    while ($ranpop) 
    {
        my $genea = int rand ($limiter);
        push(my @chroma, $genea);                        
        my $geneb = int rand ($limiter);
        push(my @chromb, $geneb);
        $ranpop--;
    }
return @chroma, @chromb, @ind;
    }
}

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Again this should work, but I am lost again. The @chroma, @chromb, @ind will then go into the hash maker that you all got working for me

Also you all can yell at me all you want about use strict...no perl books have told me how to do that! I am flying without a net! Any good references?

In reply to Re^2: Hash of Hash Redux by BioNrd
in thread Hash of Hash Redux by BioNrd

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