I have no idea what is happeneing.. but I have a 200 line long subroutine for a banner script I am working on

basicly, it checks to see if the banner its getting ready to use is already on the page, and if it is, goes to the next one, and i also have it working in categories, so i am calling the routine with

&banner(category).. and it will return the variables for the first availiable banner for that category. I also have it writing the banner it used to a file.

I may call this routine more than once in my scripts.. and the odd thing about this is.. after I run it more than twice, it always looses $var for some stupid reason.

sub banner {
my $var = shift;

}

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and I have no idea why... I do know that I am not altering $var AT ALL during the subroutine, except for the initial $var = shift

I am at a loss, I am willing to put the code for my subroutine up, if there is a suitable place to put 200 lines of code up.

if you have any ideas at all, please help, thanks

In reply to Crazyness by Anonymous Monk

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