i think my favorite mistake so far is:

open FILE, $file or die "Couldn't open file: $!";
my @file = <FILE>;

foreach (@file) {
   s/ome/substitution/ if ($applicable);
}

close FILE;
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i couldn't understand for two days why the output was always a blank file. (i embarassingly had to hand it to a friend for him to notice i wasn't writing the file out! : )

Anyway, ++ Ovid, i fell out of my chair laughing from that code. Thanks for the good cheer.

jynx