use code tags...see the help about what they are.

that will get you more efficent perlmonk advice, but that's all i know :)

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sub encrypt { 
    my ($self, $STRING) = @_; 
    my $ENCRYPTED_STRING = ''; 
    my $LENGTH = length($STRING); 
    my @STRING = split(//,$STRING); 
    my $ENCRYPTION_MAP =  "abcdefghijklmNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLMnopq
+rstuvwxyz0123456789.&@="; 
    my @ENCRYPTION_ARRAY =  split(//,$ENCRYPTION_MAP); 
    my $MAP_LENGTH = length($ENCRYPTION_MAP); 
    my $MAP_HALF = length($ENCRYPTION_MAP)/2; 

    for ($i=0; $i < $LENGTH; $i++) { 
        my $CHARACTER = $STRING$i; 
        my $POSITION = index($ENCRYPTION_MAP, "$CHARACTER"); 
          
        if ($POSITION ($POSITION + $MAP_HALF) % $MAP_LENGTH"); } } 
        
        return $ENCRYPTED_STRING; 
    } 
  
################################## 
# CHARACTER ESCAPING SUBROUTINE: #
################################## 

sub EscapeCharacter { 
    my $CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE = shift; 

    if(($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '&') || ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '\\')
+ || ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq ' ') ||
      ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '%') || ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '@') |
+| ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '/') ||
      ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '#') || ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '=') |
+| ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '"') ||
      ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq "'") || ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '+') |
+| ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '|') ||
      ($CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE eq '?')) { 
          $CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE = ord("$CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE");
          $CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE = sprintf "%x", $CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE;
          return ".$CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE"; 
    } else {
        return $CHARACTER_TO_ESCAPE;} 
}
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