Thank you.

I am currently crawling through the replies and making sense of them. I had to spend a couple of hours with use strict and use warnings turned on to clean up my lousy syntax.

Obviously I am a bit of a novice (to Perl, I have been whacking keys and writing bad code for about fifteen years). Yes, I have the Llama, access to a Camel, and the Cheeta.

Thank you all.