If it's spaghetti code, you'll probably be better of rewriting the script from scratch, something I rephrase as logic porting. Understand what it does, how it does it (file wise, system wise,...) and start hacking. The idea is ofcourse to make it cleaner, more functional, probably loads more commented, faster??, more efficient. Remember the poor guy which will need to port that same code to Perl6 :)) I doubt you'll be able to do that based on spaghetti code :) I've found it inspiring rewriting scripts from scratch over and over again (if time permits me).

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.

In reply to Re: How to modify existing code by Beatnik
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