I thought about it yesterday and implemented in my nightly programming session :-)

I am going to post the new code later

Ciao!
--bronto

Update: posted!, with a test script, too.

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz