--- Thilo Planz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is a problem of context.
That's what I figured, but I wasn't sure off-hand how. Thanks for the insight (you too Charlie). I had it set up as $scalar=$ref initially but that introduced some major problems that took a while to hunt down-- namely that it just makes a reference (duh) to the data but doesn't actually copy it over (the new copy needs to be manipulated without affecting the old copy). Your other option, $scalar={%{$ref}} , will work nicely. Thanks again. ~wren __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/