Sir, I imagine that you are busy so I'll try to keep this short.
I spent the better part of yesterday finding understanding and downloading
those two modules in the second code you posted (Io::All and Modern::Perl)
After some Nmake problems and all, I was able to run the thing.
There appears to be a problem with the "io" file opening portion.
I then wrote a bit of code to more explicitly open the files, and checked to see if it would print their contents
it does that but when I do it that way i get no output in the command line.
I am just wondering if you knew what might be going on there?
I very much like the second code you posted it's very simple.
I just want to get it working now.
Thank you for your kind replies.

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