Actually, you'd make a better teacher than myself. :)

I was sticking strictly to the problem at hand, while you were expanding it and recommending good practices. I tend to have a very focused-on-the-job frame of mind when I read other people's code. I'll be as stupid as a debugger. At any rate, the DBM suggestion makes more sense anyway. I was just being picky.

#!/home/bbq/bin/perl
# Trust no1!