note marquezc329 suggested reading: <ul> <li><a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/my.html">My</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=952446">RFC: Tutorial: use strict; now what!?</a></li> <li><a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perlintro.html">Perlintro</a> (Variable Scoping)</li> <li><a href="http://perldoc.perl.org/perldebtut.html">Debtut</a></li> </ul> <p> I would definitely recommend reading through the debugging tutorial. Stepping through your code a line at a time will help you visualize how your code is actually behaving. </p> 998032 998032