Howdy monks, I must be missing something obvious: 

   sub change_punch_process
   {
      my @numbers;

      foreach ( $q->param )
      {
         if (/^([0-9]+)/)
         {
            foreach (@numbers)
            {
               unless ($_ == $1)
               { push @numbers,$1; }
            }
         }
      }
}

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I hope this is clear enough.

I want to:
  1. Take my cgi variables and check for numbers at the beginning of the string, if so, store number in $1.
  2. Compare $1 to all the numbers currently residing in @numbers.
  3. If $1 isn't in numbers, put it in.
I'm getting really strange results. Anyone help?

Thank you,
Elam

Edited: ~Thu Nov 21 23:22:19 2002 (GMT) by footpad: Retitled (was "ponder this"), per Consideration

In reply to pondering array population by elam

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