Your fellow monks worked quite hard to help you out with this very same question over at this post: Zip code distance search. Please do not add a second post with a slightly different angle on the same question. We can't really give you the best possible help without seeing the whole history of answers and your response to them in one place.

Over there you provided an attempt at Perl code and that was a good thing. If you are still confused, add a reply to your original post explaining (a) what was helpful so far and (b) what you still aren't sure about. Doing so will keep the original post on the Recently Active Threads list for another day. If you think posting the original PHP code will help, add it to your replay to your original post over there

To further understand why this is a bad idea, please see this post by another user today who double posted a slightly different take on the same question.

Best, beth

In reply to Re: php to perl by ELISHEVA
in thread php to perl by pglinx

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