1. The reason I wasn't sure if it will open was because he happened to be on a unix/linux machine, while I was on a Windows machine. Therefore I can't open a man if I don't have it. I had no way of knowing whether that was going to work, so I had to create my own dummy file to test his problem.
  2. I never knew that foreach loops could do that. Sorry :(
  3. My version of windows perl will club me upside the head if I forget a semi-colon anywhere. I just assumed all versions of perl were like that.
  4. see #2
  5. see #2

Also, I think he just wanted that snippit fixed, he probably has other stuff in his program. What, I don't know. But then who does? Finally, sorry for acting defensive, but I tend to get that way sometimes.

In reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: script debug by jryan
in thread script debug by Anonymous Monk

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