Many thanks for your reply!

I am very grateful. And thank you for reminding me about the_main_reason().
That got lost in transmogrification :)

As for it working (after re-instating the main purpose) I tried to provide a contextually complete passage so I am not surprized it works. I have laboured many hours scribing it...

I expected it would run without transgression on hallowed Linux ground...alas, I am locked into looking through Windoze because each child in the real script calls a single axe Windows executioner...with a black bag over his head and who cannot be reasoned with (he is ' Rushin' ').

(I haven't tried Wine...only real wine :) )

I could add a print statement in each subroutine to simply print the $unique_offering.

But the part that breaks I included: The Tempter (Math::Prime::Util->subs)

Edit: Temper => Tempter