What's a "chunk"? What's not working? I'm willing to help, but I don't want to have to go over your whole program with a microscope and try to figure out what you *want* to do with it. Please be more specific in your questions. Also, it might help us to help you if we know what your *overall* goal is here (something to do with getting the data out of the format it's in and putting it into HTML tables -- but what parts of the data you have?)

Following are some pointers that jumped out at me that have probably tangential relations to the problem of structuring your algorithm:

• eq is for comparing strings, == is for comparing numerical values.
• put use strict at the top of your script, and turn on warnings with -w on the #! line. This will help you immensely in tracking down errors. In fact, put use diagnostics up there at the top to get nice long explanatory error messages, very useful while you're learning.

Hope these suggestions help.

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