I realize you feel desperate, but you have already received in depth answers to this question at this node perl task3. Please do not post the same question twice. I assure you you are not being ignored and a second post tends to annoy the monks rather than encourage them. Furthermore, people can't help you as well when they can't see the answers and discussion carried out already by other monks. So all around, starting a new post is counter productive.

Just in case you reposted this because you were afraid that no one could find the original question:

• The Seekers of Perl Wisdom has a button labeled Next Entries -->) at the bottom where you can see older posts by going onto the next page - look at the bottom. Your original post is still there, just on a later page.
• The Recently Active Threads page lists all posts that have had any sort of response in the last 24 hours. Your original post is still visible on that page and will be there at least until 9:43 pm GMT. And even later if you or others add additional replies.
• Those who have contributed to your original thread are likely monitoring the notes section of Newest Nodes to see if anybody (including you) have added additional replies to the thread.
• Many of us have set up our user accounts so that any direct reply to one of our own replies triggers an automatic message to alert us.

Best, beth

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