in reply to Parsing delimited file contents

Whenever you have to deal with delimited data, think of using Text::CSV. It deals with a lot more than just "comma" separated values.

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A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James