Thank you Kennethk, I will look over the Monestary Markup guidelines... I missed that when I originally posted and was not aware of them since this is my first visit.

I will definitely take your advice. Some of what you mentioned I should no better than to miss, mainly the ; and the declaring of variables but neglected somehow.

If you happen to know of any good resources for Perl besides Learning Perl the Hard Way or Picking up Perl I would be interested in finding some.