Heh, i do always use strict and warnings, this was some test code copied out of my actual program, i didn't put use strict and warnings in this test program because it was only created so i could cut and paste the code into perlmonks :-D

And usually i do my ($scalar1, $scalar2) = @_; or @ARGV however i wrote this sub with 1 parameter and added a second later. I then cut and paste the sub mostly to make the second one so the bad coding practice followed through.
I still feel this code is really messy though, just the general way i went about it _feels_ wrong i'm not sure why.

Neil Archibald
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