I'm pretty sure that the Anonymous Monk has the deductive, inductive and abductive logical skills to make some shrewd guesses about the specifications for your program. However, he/she/it isn't interested in writing your program for you, but rather in encouraging you to develop the skills to do these things for yourself.

Some general comments on the OPed code:

• $vline =~ s/^\S+//; #trim leading space     This trims all leading non-spaces:  \S (big-S) is the complement of the  \s (little-s) whitespace class.
• if ($_ =~ $identifier{$pins1.}) { ... }     This does not compile.

  c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
  "my %identifier = qw(one uno  two dos  three tres);
   ;;
   my $pins1 = 'two';
   $_ = 'xdosx';
   print 'match' if $_ =~ $identifier{$pins1.};
  "
  syntax error at -e line 1, near ".}"
  Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
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  It's important to post example code that can actually run, even though it doesn't behave quite the way you want. Please see Short, Self-Contained, Correct Example.

Hi,

Remember math or physics or ... class ? Remember how the grading guy always said, don't just write down the answer, show your work? Because the important part is how you arrived at the answer, not the actual answer, remember?

How would you produce a video teaching people to make pizza/lasagna, with or without actors? Would this qualify as a video script?

1) gather ingredients, tomato, cheese, meat... 2) prepare ingredients, mix this, layer that.. 3) some kind of cooking ... 4) something here ... 5) eat

I made pizza once or twice, but I don't think I could make a good teaching to pizza video with that video script .

While it is clear enough to understand, its not detailed enough to teach anyone to pizza, its not instructions, its not a script.

You have posted a pizza program, but now you need lasagna program

The problem is even though the ingredients are identical (wheat/meat/cheese), you can't turn pizza into lasagna, you have to start from beginning

Are you willing to try again?

If you're willing I will help all the way to lasagna