Oh most wise Monks I am a cursed with this problem.

I am creating tags in a Tk::Text widget.
I create tags for phone numbers and tag
for dates. When the user clicks on a
tagged phone number, the phone number gets
added to the 1st column of a table.
When the user clicks on a tagged date a menu
pops up and the user can choose to insert the
the date to the 2nd column or the 3rd column.

I have a sub routine, addToTable, that inserts the
phone numbers and dates into the table.

The problem is that when the user clicks
on a date and chooses 2nd or 3rd I get this message ...

Tk::Error: Not an ARRAY reference at ./tagMenu.pl line 32, <DATA> chun
+k 20.
 [\&main::addToTable,10/10/2002,1,[[(790)555-5555,,],[,,],[,,],[,,],[,
+,],[,,],[,,],[,,],[,,],[,,]],{}]
 (menu invoke)

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... It is really strange because I don't get that message
when I click on the phone number !?!?!?!?

I suspect I am doing something wrong.
Please take a look at my code and help me out ... please :)

#!/cygdrive/c/PERL/BIN/perl -w

use strict;
use Tk;
use Tk::ROText;
use Tk::Table;
use constant COLS => 3;


my @TAGS = ();
my @tableArray = (
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
    \( 1..COLS ),
);

sub addToTable {
    my $rotext     = shift;
    my $data    = shift;
    my $col        = shift;
    my $tArrRef     = shift;
    my $tWidget     = shift;

    for( my $row=0; $row<10; $row++ ) {
        my $v = $tArrRef->[$row][$col];
        if( length( $v ) == 0 ) {
            $tArrRef->[$row][$col] = $data;
            $tWidget->get($row, $col)->configure( -background => 'yell
+ow' );
            last;
        }
    }
}

### build GUI
my $top     = MainWindow->new();
my $rotext     = $top->ROText()->pack();
my $table     = $top->Scrolled( "Table",  
                -scrollbars     => 'e',    
                -columns     => COLS, 
                -rows         => 3)->pack();

for( my $row=0; $row<10; $row++ ) {
    for( my $col=0; $col<COLS; $col++ ) {
        my $widget = $table->Entry( -textvar => \$tableArray[$row][$co
+l]);
        $table->put( $row, $col, $widget );
        $tableArray[$row][$col] = '';
    }
}
### End build GUI

### read data and put in tags
my $Lines = 1;
while(<DATA>) {
    my @dates = ( /\d\d\/\d\d\/\d\d\d\d/g );
    if( $#dates > -1 ) {
        foreach my $date ( @dates ) {
            my $d = quotemeta( $date );
            my (@notPh) = split /$d/;
            for ( my $i=0; $i<$#dates+1; $i++ ) {
                my $notph = $notPh[$i];
                my $rec = {};
                my $s = length( $notph );
                my $e = length( $date );
                $rec->{'start'} = $Lines . "." . $s;
                $rec->{'end'}   = $Lines . "." . ($s + $e);
                $rec->{'name'} = $d;
                $rec->{'column'} = 0;
                my $menu = $rotext->Menu();
                $menu->add( 'command', -label => "2nd col",
            -command => [\&addToTable, $date, 1, \@tableArray, $table 
+]);
                $menu->add( 'command', -label => "3rd col",
            -command => [\&addToTable, $date, 2, \@tableArray, $table 
+]);
$rec->{'script'} = [sub { shift; shift->Post(@_);}, $menu, Ev('X'), Ev
+('Y')];
                push( @TAGS, $rec );
            }
        }
    }

    my @phNumbers = ( /\(\d\d\d\)\d\d\d-\d\d\d\d/g );
    if( $#phNumbers > -1 ) {
        foreach my $ph ( @phNumbers ) {
            my $p = quotemeta( $ph );
            my (@notPh) = split /$p/;
            for ( my $i=0; $i<$#phNumbers+1; $i++ ) {
                my $notph = $notPh[$i];
                my $rec = {};
                my $s = length( $notph );
                my $e = length( $ph );
                $rec->{'start'} = $Lines . "." . $s;
                $rec->{'end'}   = $Lines . "." . ($s + $e);
                $rec->{'name'} = $ph;
                $rec->{'column'} = 0;
                $rec->{'script'} = [\&addToTable, $ph, 0, \@tableArray
+, $table ];
                push( @TAGS, $rec );
            }
            
        }
    }

    $rotext->insert( 'end', $_ );
    $Lines++;
}

foreach my $tag( @TAGS ) {
    print "$tag->{'start'} $tag->{'end'} $tag->{'name'}\n";

    $rotext->tagAdd($tag->{'name'}, $tag->{'start'}, $tag->{'end'});
    $rotext->tagBind($tag->{'name'}, '<ButtonRelease-1>', $tag->{'scri
+pt'} );
    $rotext->tagConfigure( $tag->{'name'}, -underline => 1 );
}
MainLoop;

__DATA__
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah 10/10/2002 blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah ummmm .... blah balh balh
stinky dinky 10/12/1999 poo
kdsjflkjf saklfjadlkfj sdkfjaslf askfjsalf
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah 10/10/2002 blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah (790)555-5555 blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah blah balh balh
Blah blah ummmm .... blah balh balh
stinky dinky 10/12/1999 poo
kdsjflkjf saklfjadlkfj sdkfjaslf askfjsalf

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