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Excellent advice. Using flag variables is a bad habit I've developed over the last 8 years. Thanks very much for your helpful response, and thanks everybody else. I feel like such an idiot, but at least I'm smarter than I was before.

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Re^3: open failure code
by Nkuvu (Priest) on Nov 26, 2003 at 23:39 UTC
    Nope, an idiot would have asked "My Perl code doesn't work. Why?" (without anything else, such as code, examples, assumptions, et cetera).
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