I have been programming in various languages for about 20 years now and I have been programming in Perl for a few years now but still consider myself a "Perl newbie". I do have the Camel book, "Programming Perl" as well as "Advanced Perl Programming", "Perl Cookbook", "CGI Programming", "Perl DBI", "Network Programming with Perl" (not an O'Reily book but still a good one), etc. I just couldn't get it to work. If I've learned one thing programming it is that eventually you have to ask for help. If for nothing else but to get a fresh perspective on the problem.
Thanks,
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I have been programming in Perl for a few years now but still consider myself a "Perl newbie".
Please excuse my assumption that this was your first foray into Perl programming then. It just seemed that way to me because you supplied us with five examples of things you tried, none of which made much sense even when you disregard the fact that they were presumably assignments to variables which weren't prefixed with a sigil ($, @, or %).
I see that BrowserUk was seemingly able to interpret your problem and provide a solution though. I'm glad you got help.
If I've learned one thing programming it is that eventually you have to ask for help.
Of course!
-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";
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Not a problem. I do apologize for my sloppy and incomplete post. In the future I will copy and paste code instead of trying to retype. I will also do a more thorough check of my posts for accuracy and completeness. Thanks to you and to you all for the help.
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