Yes, I realize this. I guess I've been programming in languages where dynamic arraying is impractical for so long that I forget that perl has such flexibility.

I didn't want to declare an array of a fixed size... and if I did, I didn't want to use an explicit for-loop (not sure why not, but the little voice in the back of my head said "hey, this is perl... you probably don't need a for loop to do that... it can probably happen in one line... it's probably a really short line, you idiot!")

Thanks for the resources, I'll read up on them! (couldn't wait, read the first... wow... so many of my programs to unbreak)