You seem to know some programming but try to brute-force Perl, which doesn't work well with Perl.

For a quick introduction to Perl, read "perlintro" at www.perldoc.com.

Futher reading that may help you get started is "perl", "perltoc", "perldata", "perlsub", and "perlref" (also found at www.perldoc.com).

Other than that, you might want to read a tutorial or two. Just be aware of that there are many IMHO bad tutorial that teaches bad practices.

ihb

Read argumentation in its context!