in reply to unexpected output,

Have you seen SuicideJunkie's reply to your earlier node, at Re^3: trouble understanding boss's code?

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Re^2: unexpected output,
by DanielM0412 (Acolyte) on Jul 20, 2011 at 19:00 UTC
    yess and i used his advice to shorten my code and make changes here and there, but it sprung up another problem, and nothing in the code sticks out to me as the problem