Thanks Athanasius, I am fond of the simplification you provided! Also, I apologize for the sloppy code, that's what I get for copying and pasting snippets from the original without paying atttention! Also, thats the 2nd time that ternary operator has been metioned
This operator is new to me.. I've been heavily relying on the O'reilly Perl bible. Although ternary operators are defined, there is no concrete definition /or examples for ? :, in the book!