I have 2 guesses.

The first is that you have a typo in a variable name and so don't have data where you think you should. Been there, done that, strict.pm is your friend for catching that "D'oh!" that happens to all of us.

The second (and more likely) issue is that your split on every character is not what you wanted. Your last character is some kind of white-space, and so what happens is that you do have something there, but you don't see it in your debugging statement. The first answer to that is to put |'s in your statement so that white-space is easier to see. The second is to split on something other than the space between characters...

In reply to Re (tilly) 1: unGodly problems with pop() by tilly
in thread unGodly problems with pop() by Anonymous Monk

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