Senior Internet Network Engineer here who began programming Perl because of that job, so welcome! When I first came to Perlmonks, I stated vehemently "I'm not a programmer!". Heh. That didn't last a long time.

I see you've got several responses, so come Monday when you're back at work, feel free to post back here on this thread or start another if necessary.

Bit of a warm place in my heart for neteng's who get stuck in the throws of things ;)