Well, yea, Acolyte. The only thing you are doing with @arrayOfOther is pushing to it. So, forget that array and tie completely. Instead, open a file for writing, and replace the push with a print to that file.

I'm supposing that there is a useful reason for tieing the input array, rather than just reading the whole thing into a real array object: the file is too large. So I'd not change that one unless it is a performance problem too.

But the @arrayOfOther is only referenced 3 times in the code, and is a push in all cases. That's not a proper use of an array. That's an output stream.

—John