perldoc.com gets a little flakey from time to time, for various reasons. Fortunately, if you have Perl, you have perldoc right on your own computer too. Try typing "perldoc perlintro", just for example. Also, with ActiveState Perl you have both the command line utility "perldoc", as well as an HTML version of the POD that is browsable with your favorite web browser.

Yes, I'm aware of the local copy within ActivePERL. I have used it on occassion. I just wanted to bring your attention to the dead link. I think I'm going to put my initial code up on my site shortly, then put the more optimized code with hash tables up later. My biggest concern at this point is that I have almost no clue about software version control. I guess my first copy will be v 0.01 :)