GP, thanks for your comments, and sorry for the long delay in replying. It looks like the random color thing, while I think it is cool, is not going to fly here. It's still good to learn different ways of coding the functionality. I must admit I still go the for '(my $i=0; $i < $somearbitratyval; $i++)' route. I will strive to work 'for my $i (0..$somearbval)' into future code. That's two dots and not an ellipsis, right?

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