Nitpick away! I don't mind at all :) I should have said Using strict and vars together will catch this.

As for the vars pragma, it merely allows you to use globals in your program without the need to specify the current package name. Thus, strict catches errors in global misspellings that it wouldn't catch if you use fully-qualified variable names -- e.g. $main::foo can be misspelled as $main::Foo and strict doesn't care one bit, though you may have trouble finding the error in your code.

Further elaboration on nitpicking. I've said it before and I'll say it again: let me know when I'm being a moron! I'm a PerlSaint in name only. I often wind up with weird conceptual blocks, or sometimes make downright stupid mistakes (like reposting nodes - grr!!!), so I want to hear the nitpicking. Like most everyone else here, I want to learn, and learn, and learn...

Cheers,
Ovid

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