in reply to PERL newbie Cant figure out where to start
Here's the best piece of advice that I can give:
Try and break down the program into different tasks and write a mini-script to achieve each task. Once they're all working, write a bigger script that does all the stuff you want. As you're working on the mini-scripts, you'll realise that something you thought was one task is actually several, so break that into more mini-scripts.
Then, when you get confused, you can come to us with the mini-script instead of the big script, which makes it easier for us and more comprehensible for you.
If I was working on solving your problem, I'd probably think..
Breaking it up like this also makes it easier to know where to start by making basically everything a valid starting point.
Good luck!
--Pileofrogs
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