Hi @Buckskin , thank you. I have removed it altogether for now.
I have restarted from scratch a couple of times now and have something working but a few problems remain like how to prevent the displayed leds from arrays of length other than 32 in my case?
This is what happens if the array length is 3:
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Thanks again for your reply.