Greetings again -- I filed the original question (and then found the "Mail me my password since I'm a doofus and forgot it" function).

At any rate -- I discovered why I couldn't make the $main::var work (which I had tried) - I use 'use strict'. Check the code:

use strict;

my $fish = "Trout";
print "Works: $fish\n";
print "Not  : $main::fish\n";
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Which doesn't work as I'd expect (or would hope it to) at all.
Can you chaps enlighten me further as to this conundra?

--JP