I'm sorry you feel that way. For the record, I'm not trying to get you to write software for me, but this is my very first program (admittedly ambitious) and I'm learning far more from examples like those posted here than I got from the book. My skills so far are very limited and I really appreciate the help from monks more experienced than me.

Also for the record, in my inexperience I had no idea that the code above was for the command line; my CGI takes input from a web page.

You may also recall that when this thread started, I posted code I had written from my limited understanding and you told me I should instead use a module I had never heard of before, and that's what I'm trying to do.

Thanks.