Thanks very much! It solved my problem. Aside from the infinite loop, your code worked and my didn't. I stared at it, and noticed that the important difference was:

Your code
my @arrayAoH;

My code
my @arrayAoH = "";

By initializing the array, I shot myself in the foot. When I removed that "" initialization, my code worked great.

Thanks VERY much for the help!

tl