Teach me not to list enough code. It's actually erroring a little later in the loop. Here's the full loop:

my $i = 0;
my @jobTimes = ('') x $numTimes;    #initialize array
foreach my $job (@jobTimes)
{
    $job = {
            start   => param("JobStart$i"),
            end     => param("JobEnd$i"),
    };
    $job{'start'} =~ s/^0+//;
    $job{'end'} =~ s/^0+//;
    $i++;
}
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It's giving the "Global Symbol "%job" requires explicit package" error on the regexpen.

Ah yes that would explain it. $job is a scalar variable holding a reference to the hash, as such you need to dereference it when accessing a specific field of the hash. Like so $job->{start} =~ s/^0+//;


HTH

I tried to swear at perl and it compiled!

Thanks, that worked. I've only recently had to start using references in my code, so I apprectiate your help.

--Alex