Thank you all for for your responses and advice. I suspect my lecturer is a member of this site (he recommended it to the class). I just want to clear up a few misconceptions with tilly: 1. I am not asking anyone to do my work for me I just want someone to EVALUATE my code,help me spot bugs,better my understanding and maybe grade me on my code that's all. 2. I have a sincere interest in learning perl and mastering it for the long term. 3. This is not my first introduction to programming 4. I WILL PASS THIS COURSE ON MY OWN MERIT..................