That's a lot of code and hard to understand. Could you somehow narrow your question down so it only has the code that your program is stumbling over? You'll probably get better answers then. Good luck, and welcome to perlmonks!

Oh, and to make it easier to read, you might want to run your perl program through perltidy first to make it easier to read. But that's sort of of side-importance; the most important thing is to reduce the amount of code you posted.

2005-10-14 jdporter restored title b0rkage that left only 'Re:'

In reply to Re: Weird Perl Rule I'm Probably Not Following by tphyahoo
in thread Weird Perl Rule I'm Probably Not Following by moltar512

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