Thanks to you both for your replies GenMainRecData did indeed contain a feature that produced this result !
Regards Andrew "Wiggins d'Anconia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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>