Hi,
is there any deeper reason why you don't

use CGI;
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?? That is something which immediately comes to my mind.

Well, actually I couldn't think of it before I re-entered my mind after passing out, because you don't

use strict;
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and have no warnings enabled (perl -w).
:-)

Regards...	Stefan
you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion