Slowly is what I'm all about, hense the post. But I'm in no position to demand anything, as my company Friday laid off 3% of the workforce.

Given that I'm stuck in a less than optimal situation, I'm trying to at least clean up the syntax to a legible point w/o breaking functionallity. I admit, tho, that $foo and @Foo look too similar and make my eyes bleed.

I'm taking someone's advice and writing a script that will simply output all of my scalars, arrays, and hashes so I can see what I'm up against.

Also, I'm deficient when it comes to the debugger ... but necessity is the mother of invention and/or education ...

HTH
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Apply yourself to new problems without preparation, develop confidence in your ability to to meet situations as they arrise.

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