So they are, wow! How does that work? I thought I would have to get right back to the hash by de-referencing with %{...} before being able to move forward again slicing out a list @{...}.

Another example of Perl automagically doing clever things. Yes, I was only referring to it twice actually and I did consider a temporary scalar for $rhHandles->{handles} but decided not to more to see if I could crack the problem.

Thank you,

JohnGG