Thanks! I hadn't thought of #2 (things you didn't like). I had a foreach when I was using a hash to store data, but switched to the C-style for when I made the move to an array because, well just because that's the other idiom I'm familiar with. Although, while your suggestion is pretty safe for the chars loop isn't there a larger potential with the lines loop of instantiating a large list? As for #1, I know I know, but at least I didn't go with -s! (I was tempted but especially didn't want to force use of = to pass a value.) That and it's such a simple thing, I most certainly would have used Getopt::* if it was any more complicated; two arguments, arguments with optional values, or arguments with types. Yeah, it actually works without fully qualified $a and $b (had like that for awhile) but figured I'd go for the gusto.

Thanks again.

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