Bob Showalter wrote: > Andrew Kennard wrote: > [snip]
> > No, you shouldn't have to do that. Your first approach is correct, so we > need to find out what's going wrong there... > Can you show us GenMainRecData? Are you sure it isn't the culprit here, possibly it is already doing data munging that it shouldn't. As a side note generally you should leave the '&' off the call to the subroutine, no need for it anymore, unless you know specifically why to include it. my @TheRecord = GenMainRecData(); Should do. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>