I'm not sure what you mean by

while (my $line_holder = <FILE>) {
  foreach etc...
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That is certainly != to what I wrote....

while(<FILE>){
    my $line_holder = $_; #GOTCHA
    foreach my $val(@lines){
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Which is something I do in tons of code I have written at work and it works fine?? Perhaps I am missing something?
TexasTess
"Great Spirits Often Encounter Violent Opposition From Mediocre Minds" --Albert Einstein
Waiting to see just how fast this makes it to an all time negative record...and wondering if any of the downvoters think I care :-)