note blahblahblah This will happen when you call a sub with an ampersand but without any parentheses, like the following: <P><code>&sub;</code><P> Doing so makes the calling sub's @_ visible to called subroutine. To avoid this, either omit the ampersand or include empty parens when calling a sub with no args. See [perldoc://perlsub] for more info. 680420 680420