I should probably just /msg you, but I had to say, that this construct:

{
    local $_ = <DATA>;
    chomp;
    ..
}
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Is wicked. SO MANY TIMES I've re-invented the wheel and created little stupid variable names.. yadda yadda. Never agian. I will localize the scope on $_ and us it as a temporary string manipulation variable.. Thanks for doing that guys homework so well! :-)

Kurt

PS: I really have to echo PBP on this: Use Text::CSV_XS to extract complex variable-width fields. - DCFB