I don't know why i'm having such a hard time with Perl...Iv'e read and read and it just flies through my brain!

It sounds like you're doing wrong what I do wrong:  Read too much and code too little. It's my worst bad habit. This is precisely why I tried to help you a bit by refactoring your code. Study each of the changes I made very carefully, asking yourself "Why did he do that?" for each one. I promise you you'll learn several helpful lessons.

Are you using a good programmer's text editor with Perl syntax highlighting? If not, do. One of the obvious problems you're having is with trivial syntax errors (i.e., typos). A good Perl text editor will help you avoid these.

In reply to Re^3: Vowel search by Jim
in thread Vowel search by Noob@Perl

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