Hey thanks for taking the time to whip up that quick rendition of my script. You are correct, I never thought of doing it that way. It has much to do with my inexperience and much to do with my lack of creativity. However, as this is my first script, I wanted to make it a bit more complicated than it needed to be. I do realize that I could have created the same functionality without the subroutines, blocks, and whatnot, but I know those are vital for future more complex scripts. I wanted to get my hands dirty a bit.

I must say this. I like a lot of the things you have done here. Your use of split, printf, join, shuffle, and ternary are superb. I guarantee I will be refering back to this.

I do have a question for you though. in your split function you use q[ ... ] with symbols [ and ] in there. Why does that not cause a syntax error? (I did test that and it does indeed work fine...just curious as to why/how) And what does that #' comment at the line end mean to you?

Thanks again for the short lesson!

-- hakkum

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