Re^2: Unexpected deletion of data using > operator

[jonnyfolk]

Thanks for your input, but surely bringing $item out of a hat at the end is what you were criticising me for in the first place?? :)

davidrw's reply above (the most compressed version) removes the problem (typo not withstanding), simply by copying and pasting over my previous code. Therefore there must be a problem in that code, but I have not yet found it. Cheers.

[n3toy]

Whoops... Add: use MagicHat; to the top of the snippet. :-)

This will teach me to test code before posting.