my $ini_path = qw( /home/bob/Documents/html_template_data/3.values.ini
+ );
...
my $input_directory =
  qw( /home/bob/Documents/meditations/castaways/translate/data
);

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You are assigning a list to a scalar variable. This only works because there is only one element in the list. The correct way is to assign a scalar value to a scalar variable: 

my $ini_path = '/home/bob/Documents/html_template_data/3.values.ini';

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Or a list to a list: 

my ( $ini_path ) = qw( /home/bob/Documents/html_template_data/3.values
+.ini );

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if ( $prompt1 eq ( "y" | "Y" ) ) {
  show_lang_codes();
}

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$ perl -le'use Data::Dumper; my $x = ( "y" | "Y" ); print Dumper $x'
$VAR1 = "y";

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That code is only comparing $prompt1 to a lower case "y" but not to an upper case "Y". If you want to compare to both lower and upper case you can do the following: 

if ( $prompt1 eq "y" || $prompt1 eq "Y" ) {
  show_lang_codes();
}

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Or: 

if ( lc $prompt1 eq "y" ) {
  show_lang_codes();
}

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Or: 

if ( $prompt1 =~ /\Ay\z/i ) {
  show_lang_codes();
}

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In reply to Re: chunking up texts correctly for online translation by jwkrahn
in thread chunking up texts correctly for online translation by Aldebaran

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