Wow, lots of stuff to look at there, thanks. I have a few questions though. you say:

"Do not use the special &-syntax to call subroutines unless you understand and require its special semantics. "

My copy of the Programming Perl book makes no mention of this, should I never use the "&" in calling subroutines??? This is the first I've heard of this! Can you eplain please?

"You are using the global file handle TOKENFILE. This habit could cause you troble in future. You could local(*TOKENFILE) to make your changes to the global handle temporary but better to simply not use a global handle. "

Can you point me to a page on this or explain this further please?

In reply to Re^2: Could I get some feedback on my code please? by PockMonk
in thread Could I get some feedback on my code please? by PockMonk

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