Neat stuff! ++! I have to comment on some style though:

Things i don't like (sorry):

  1. hand rolling your own arg processor - not good if you are handing code out to others, use Getopt::Std or Getopt::Long instead.
  2. C style for loops - if i have said it once here i have said it one thousand times: for my $j (0..$maxchar) {} is so much nicer.
Things i did like:
  1. use of Symbol
  2. using readline on a hash ref key to get around the interpreter mixing up angle brackets and the arrow operator (my $one = <$data[0]->{FH}>; doesn't work - i would have gimped out with a temp var)
  3. fully qualifying $a and $b to main in your sort
Thanks!

jeffa 

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
F--F--F--F--F--F--F--F--
(the triplet paradiddle)

In reply to (jeffa) Re: Some missing textutils by jeffa
in thread Some missing textutils by belg4mit

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