in reply to Syntax and code debugging

A few things, off the top:

Update: My list grew from being "two points" to "three" to "fiv -- aww, heck, a few" as I glanced at the code.

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^+*`^ ve^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'