Thank you mighty perl Monks for your wisdom! (this is the orginal poster, I'll have to make a user name at some point).
I do appologize for the confusion on debugging, all of your assumptions were correct and and the forloop was masking my outer variable. I was attempting to showcase the problem from a much larger program, after seeing your code snippits, I think I have a better idea of how to showcase things (I will read the linked page too, though I do point out, I knew what I meant, and you knew what I meant too, beginers luck?).
I have read many web pages on perl scoping (global vs lexical) including the documentation on key words 'my' and 'our' packaged within the perl install. I'm afraid I still think of "my $var;" used out side of a function as global to the file which would be its C/C++ equivalent and it appears to be the case in perl (excepting its use in forloops). I tend to think of using "our $var;" as the equivalent of an external command in C/C++, a way to link a file global var across mulitple files. Is this incorrect?
How does one declare a global variable if "use strict;" is in effect? As soon as I declare it via 'my', it is lexical not global.

In reply to Re^2: Tricky scope problem by Anonymous Monk
in thread Tricky scope problem by Anonymous Monk

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