Well so far, even after passing those elements to the subprocess call "&clean_the_file();" I still had no luck. Albeit, I did remember reading about subprocess' being named with funky underscores causing issues with Perl awhile back. This may not be the case, but I removed the name of the sub() function renamed it to cleanthefile();.

I commented everything out and just printed my variables $sourcefile and $removeq, $sourcefile prints the directory name as expected, BUT - $removeq spits this output out 
[root@oailxpp02 ccsys]# /root/mkpq -r queue-04
Global symbol "$removeq" requires explicit package name at /root/mkpq 
+line 87.
Execution of /root/mkpq aborted due to compilation errors.

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My guess is: the scalar isn't being handled properly, the subprocess can't bring it into it's set of instructions, am I on the right track? Does anyone have any recommendations?

In reply to Re^4: Program unsuspectingly dies with no reason why. by misconfiguration
in thread Program unsuspectingly dies with no reason why. -FIXED! by misconfiguration

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