@ point one: Oops, thanks for pointing that out! I was poring over perldoc trying to find stuff about subroutines and saw some things that mentioned exactly what you pointed out and didn't think anything of it...

Lately my perl debug console has gone all wonky and completely refuses to give me the errors on a per-line basis so I have to hunt down the bugs for each time the errors occur...

@ point two: Heh, yeah, I just noticed that testString wasn't initialized. Silly me, I was doing tests to see what would work and in my rush to post it, forgot to set it so that testString was $string.

@ point three & four: Thanks, I'm new to regex and have been avoiding it because of the fairly famous quote that says something about using regex and the programmer now having 2 problems. (obfuscation not good for my diet of perl)

What kind of changes do you mean?

Also, thanks for helping me out here! Saved me some hours of searching around haha!

In reply to Re^2: IT's not counting... by Dwood
in thread IT's not counting... by Dwood

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