yeah i tend to use strict; when trying to debug... a lot of times it starts shreiking to high hell when i dont state the scope of the variables im using. so i normally throw it in there when im having trouble, but it didnt give me any errors. the only thing im having problems with at this point, is the fact that i cant print the contents of @array either by using it in quotes or not. still gives me

ARRAY[ 0xmemaddy]