First off, yes, tachyon the values in @classid are only numbers, but thank you for your vigilance.

On a seperate and, I think, somewhat odd note I noticed that whatever I do after I have the open ORGIDATA, ">orig" || die "Couldn't open! $!"; line doesn't happen (i.e. prints don't print etc.). I'm completely baffled as to why.

For example modifying the above code to this: 

open ORGIDATA, ">orig" || die "Couldn't open! $!";
for (my $k = 0; $k < @classid; $k++) {
    if ($classid[$k] != $classid[$k-1]) {
       print $classid[$k], " ", @{$class[$k]}, " ", $location
+[$k], " ", $credits[$k], "<br>\\
n";
    }
}
close ORGIDATA;

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prints nothing.
However if the code is amended to comment out the open and close lines the information is printed.

Yes, Zaxo, I am using CGI.pm, I hadn't known about that feature of CGI.pm so I went to do some research to see how it worked. I found the save function and tried using that but it didn't work (functioned same as above). If I missed your point please correct me.

In reply to Re: Help already received and request for more by deryni
in thread Keeping form information in CGI by deryni

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