I'll give this a try. I was trying to be elegant and do things faster than brute forcing my way line by line, but I guess you see where that got me... :-(

Yea, I know I really should have been using strict and i felt like an idiot posting the code without it (thus the warning up top). Thanks for your input!

when I clean up the code (and am using strict like I should be), I will repost the code.

perl -e 'print reverse qw/o b n a e s/;'