Thank you, fellow monks!

strict is now applied and all is working well. It took a little time but also highlighted a few not so obvious errors. Your responses also gave me some good tips and left me with a couple of questions.

What's the difference between these two lines of code and why use the first when the second will work? 

(my $timestamp,my $page,my $userURL,etc) = split('\|',$line);
my ($timestamp,$page,$userURL,etc) = split('\|',$line); # which is muc
+h cleaner.

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Not everyone would endorse this form of list initialisation BrowserUk 
my ($var1,$var2,$var3) = ('','','');
my ($var4,$var5,$var6);

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This seems like a easy, clean way to initilize. Any comments? Also, can variables be declared as in the second line?

BTW, that looks like you're doing a test on an uninitialized array element (graff)
You're right!
So!! Another good tip on an in-line initilizing technique. (BrowserUk) 

my %hits
for (....) {
    ..
    $hits{$page} = [0,0,0,0] unless exists $hits{$page};
    $hits($page}[0]++;
    ..
}

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I see this piece of code. (Notromda).
Could this also be written as on line 2 and what's the difference? 
print $pages{"page1"}->[1];
print $pages{"page1'}[1];

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In reply to Re: Problems with 'strict' and variables created on the fly by nedals
in thread Problems with 'strict' and variables created on the fly by nedals

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