Please dont respond if you want to tell me about formatting, or if you want to tell me this is a continuation post or if you dont have anything constructive to input. Unless you want to tell me im a genius.

It's comments like that which cause me to heap scorn on your posts. If you were one of my students I'd probably end up failing you for the semester. I won't tell you about formatting (this time) but I will point out several flaws in your programming.

1. Failure to use the pragma "strict." This probably would have saved you some pain
2. Lack of error checking (see your "open" calls) to ensure what you want to have happen happens

Those two issues alone would have me give your programming assignment a failing grade if you were one of my students.

I have to be honest with you: when I see posts like the one I am critiquing now and others like this one from someone who has been around this Monastery for less than a week and is flame baiting I consider ignoring anything else you post.

I've been on this site since 2001. Experience has taught me that here in PM as well as in life a bit of humility goes a very long way if you want help from others learning any skill and especially Perl. Tone down your attitude and you'll find this is a great place to hang out and a go to place to learn about Perl. My expectations of my students can apply here:

1. Do you own work
2. Write proper code with embedded documentation
3. If you come to me for help with a programming issue:
   1. Explain what you are trying to accomplish or what you expect to happen
   2. Show me the code. There should be just enough for it to be self contained but don't overwhelm me with your entire source.
   3. Provide me with an error code. Copy/paste if you can.
4. Be professional/polite. I've been in the field since 1981 and I have personal experience that taught me that bad attitude gets you nowhere.

The other thing that irritates me are node titles that smack of the author being a smart ass. "Magic fixer ability", really? Did you get that from a Pokemon episode?