this site is very helpful for perl beginers, as a matter of fact, i don't know of any community that i've ever been in that is more accepting of the un-initiated! however, we expect you to put up your 1/2 of the work if you expect us to do the rest. All i said in my answer to you was:

• give us a good problem defenition
• give us a good background
• and tell us how far you've gotten
• tell us what the problem you've encountered is

and if you give us that... we'll do our best!