Congrats on "use stict;" - I'd also 'use warnings;" (or -w on the shebang line).

Nits: instead of: 

  $time{month} = 'Dec';
  $time{day} = 12;
  $time{year} = 2003;
  $time{hour} = 14;
  $time{minutes} = 0;
  $time{seconds} = 0;

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write 
%time = (
    month => 'Dec',
    day => 12,
    year => 2003,
    hour => 14,
    minutes => 0,
    seconds => 0,
);

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(The => operator takes care of stringifying what's to the left of it.)

Consolidating the globals (as in %w) is a good thing, though minimizing their use is beter, as others have said previously.

Why are you doing $. = 0;?

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

In reply to Re: Style and Coding Criticism (part 2) by bobn
in thread Style and Coding Criticism (part 2) by inelukii

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