As the prophet observed, 'honey is definitely better than vinegar for catching flies.'

"I'd just like to thank all of you who are so willing to help those in need; it's really great to see such a helpful community."

And you have definitely lathered on the sweet words.

For future reference, however, you may wish to heed the Monastery guidance that SOPW should include code (that is, Perl code, IMO) to show what effort you've made and an explanation of why that which you've tried (relevant even though your code is not Perl) isn't what you expected/wanted. Please see On asking for help