Evil grin is deserved. @#*#&%@#* I hate counter-intuitive sh*t. It's just one of those weird occurences (that I try to avoid) where I had no choice and.....well....THANKS!

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>I love it when I get to do things like this (evil grin). Parameters passed on a DO command line are by default passed by reference. You need to enclose them in parens to pass by value. So, dump the @ and your array will pass fine.