Granted that fruiture's post could be viewed as a bit condescending, but it did make some valid points. The most pertinent one I can immediately think of is using a '&' in front of a sub call. There is a difference between using it and not using it which you may not be aware of and fruiture pointed this out (quite correctly, IMO, given the level of Perl knowledge demonstrated in the rest of the code) and where to find the relevant documentation. A laudable post it would seem to me. As for your own post, if I can go OT for a second or two:

• "modual" should be "module"
• "waist of time" should be "waste of time"
• "make software" is probably better written as "write software"
• "I do know fair bit about Perl" is probably less true than "I know enough Perl to be dangerous"

The Monestary is free, and the people here devote their time for free, so don't get shirty when someone takes a lot of time and trouble to go into great detail about where you've gone wrong and how to get more information on how to get out of trouble. fruiture++, FireBird34--.

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