Why are you looping if you're looking for a specific extension

ah my wise freind, if I couldn't do this then what were my hopes of creating a tool that could be used in general situations, which is my ultimate aim, also my set task of recreating the 2000+ utils wouldn't be nearly as fun if the utils only did a select bit of what the "genuine windows" tools perfomed - my sub-task of setting the default browser was really just bait to the chase.

bearing in mind that i'm not actually working towards a deadline etc, i'm just challenging myself, i've only been doing interesting things with perl for about a week, not including some basic examples from the llama book over the last month or so, i'm just looking for something to do.

and yes the "unable to recognise associations" isn't an error, but it all depends on what you want to achieve and in the end what matters is that those involved understand, don'tcha think? which is fine because I think i get it now