Good point, but I guess I should have been more precise about my situation, you see the database will only ever be in two states, cr or CR and never Cr or cR. So while checking for the last two states is OK it's really not required and if you're going to give each option as separate it's not really required.

But thanks! I never played with Benchmark before, now I have new perl toys to play with! :-)

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