i guess the points needs clarification:

1. You consider yourself one of the most advanced perl programmers at your company.
at the moment, i'm actually the *only* programmer at the company, perl or otherwise. (i admit i still have a bias that says HTML via Dreamweaver isn't programming). it's a small company ... 3 people.

2. You needed to post a question to perlmonks to figure out how to write the code.
i'll give you that one, but the only way i can get another pair of eyes on *anything* at this point is to post. more of a logistics problem than anything else. plus, by posting, i got a better solution than what i was banging my head on ....

although, if i'm banging my head on it, chances are others would too ... but i do hope people can learn from my (publically viewable) mistakes ....

In reply to Re^2: "advanced" Perl functions and maintainability by geektron
in thread "advanced" Perl functions and maintainability by geektron

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.