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That was exactly it. Thanks again!
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Re^5: Deconstructed array won't return scalar value if integer?
by FunkyMonk (Bishop) on Nov 29, 2007 at 22:36 UTC
    Just to make sure you know why. A number that starts with a zero is treated as octal: 
    print 016, "\n";
print "016", "\n";
print 0+"016", "\n";

#Output:

#14
#016
#16

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