@Kenosis;
I can't thank you enough Kenosis, for your kind words, and informative reply.
Your suggested solution is perfect. I'm not usually so dense. But after working, and tackling the hard parts first. My mind sometimes has a hard time sorting out the easy stuff -- it tends to make it really complicated. :/
Anyway, I can't thank you enough for indulging me. As I know it probably wasn't really hard for most ppl. I just somehow made it that way.
Thanks again.

--Chris 

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use perl::always;
my $perl_version = "5.12.5";
print $perl_version;

In reply to Re^2: How to best filter/direct data based on input structure? by taint
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