As an interesting learning experience, writing a hack on that though isn't bad. I've written one for ksh and, I kid you not, dbase (surprisingly easy, that one). Yes, they were not good or complete, but helpful both in getting my old shell scripts to perl and in learning what I can/should be doing w/ perl. Mostly its just things like renaming variables, munging while/if stmts and tiding up the punctuation, not smoothing the logic. Now, I think I'd just start fresh (w/ 'use CGI;' at the top ;-) but then it quickly got me a bunch of perl to work on w/ a specific purpose; duplicate what my shell script was doing.

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