in reply to HELP!!!! VB code to PERL?

Hi,

A word to the wise, learn to use languages, don't learn to let them use you. Asking for a literal translation of code without understanding it will only severely limit you in the long run. Learning how any given technology works will grant you skills you didn't even consider.

Or as Ivan Illich states in 'Tools for a Convivial Society':

An individual relates himself in action to his society through the use of tools that he actively masters, or by which he is passively acted upon. To the degree that he masters his tools, he can invest the world with his meaning; to the degree that he is mastered by his tools, the shape of the tool determines his own self-image. Convivial tools are those which give each person who uses them the greatest opportunity to enrich the environment with the fruits of his or her vision.

Free your mind.