Thanks to Timothy Kimball and Brett McCoy for answers to my problem,
included below...

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Subject: Re: scalar vs. vector context
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:11:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Kimball)
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: Do you mean the first instance of @possWords? so it would look like
: this:
: push(@possWords,$temp) ;

Yep.

: I didn't know that about push. Thanks for the info.

I don't imagine that's a feature of push() that gets used much.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: scalar vs. vector context
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 14:54:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Kimball)
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:    @possWords = push(@possWords,$temp) ;

This line is the problem. push() returns the number of elements in the
array after the new elements have been pushed onto it. Get rid of the
"@possWords = " part of this line.

-- tdk


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: scalar vs. vector context
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 15:05:46 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Lonya Julin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Mon, 7 May 2001, Lonya Julin wrote:


>    @possWords = push(@possWords,$temp) ;

Err... this is your problem.  You are pushing your value onto
@possWords,
then returning the number of elements into the same array.  I don't
think
this is what you want.  push returns a $calar value with the new number
of
elements in your array.  Unless you need to know how many elements are
in
your array, just say push(@possWords, $temp)

-- Brett
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