Hi. I guess I should have mentioned this in my original post. The section of code that I pasted in here is actually a subset of a subroutine of a much larger program. I am using use strict and use warnings.

The code itself functions and does not give any warnings (even when I run perl -w). It's just that it's not running the way I want it to.

I know I should probably run it through perl -d, but considering how far down the pipe in the program this section actually occurs, It'd take me 20 minutes just to get to this point.

Thanks though, for the thought.
Matt