Actually that's my fault for not describing the whole problem in my original post.

The original program takes data from web pages and parses the data to do a simluation on baseball players for a fantasy baseball league. My thought was, after looking at his pascal code and the hoops he had to jump through to do the parsing, that we could both combine the culling of the information and the process of the simulation in to one program.

My thought was that with the text parsing capabilities Perl has, it was hands down the obvious language choice for this exercise. Of course he went ahead and did his in pascal anyway as he doesn't as of yet know Perl, so I thought I would convert it ( and him ) and see how much easier I could do it and sharpen my chops in the process.

Some people fall from grace. I prefer a running start...