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None of this will give you the fix. You shouldn't preface procedure names with '&'. One practice to attempt is to bracket 
   if (-e $doc) {

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   } else {
       print STDERR "File '$doc' does not exist!\n";
   }

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Then in the future you can manually check for the existance of the file, see if the proper directory is being used, etc.

As far as your root problem, I won't shoot my foot off...

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Re^2: Unreferenced scalar?
by HamNRye (Monk) on May 19, 2008 at 17:29 UTC
    I left the else clause off in an attempt to make the code more straightforward. If the file doesn't exist, the code doesn't run, and I don't get the error. I modified the sub calls to be: 
    my @ads = getAdNums();
collectAds(@ads);

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    I also upgraded to the latest Active State version: 
    N:\>perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 5 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2007, Larry Wall

Binary build 1003 285500 provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built May 13 2008 16:52:49
    Still getting complaints about Unreferenced Scalar: 
     Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x1ab2e84, Perl interpreter: 0x2243f4 at C:\p2exe\word2txt\debug_word2txt.pl line 28.

    Still hoping someone can point me in the right direction.

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