Ok, here's a really weird one that I can't figure out for the life of me. I've got a scaler called $rest. The last element(word) in $rest is supposed to be a password, whether $rest is 1 element or 432678 elements.

After reading up, I found the sexy pop function.. but since it only works on array's I did a little diddling with $rest 

(@rest = split(/ /, $rest);

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so that it would be in array form to use pop. well, straightforward, 
$apass = pop @rest;

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doesn't work, I 
print "ATTEMPT PASS: $apass\n";

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and get nothing at all. I thought perhaps maybe I was just a really bad coder and $rest or @rest was empty, but I can 
print "\$REST: $rest\n";

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and 
foreach $i @rest {
    print "\@REST: $i\n";

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and I get data everytime! (the correct data!)

So I did more looking and saw that pop @rest; should return $_, so I 

print "\$_: $_\n";

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and get NO data other than my "$_" literal...

I'm SO stumped on this, it isnt even funny. Thanks for the help! Terron the lamer

Edit: chipmunk 2001-07-12
Edit: neophyte 2001-07-13 for better readability

In reply to unGodly problems with pop() by Anonymous Monk

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