This is exactly what I am looking for; it works like a charm. :-D Now, the question is: How did you learn this type of effiecient coding? I have looked for Perl tutorials (I only started using it this summer when I setup my webserver) and all of them are the same old "how do Perl variables work" and such. Perhaps it is a matter of experience... I can at least understand what this code is doing now that I see it, I just have to learn how to write it.

Actually, I do have three questions:
  1. When $dispmode equals 3 (or display:1 and coordinate:1), it doesn't show the coordinates as an ordered pair like I would like it to. How could I fix this?(sub { print "<tr><td>" . join("</td><td>",split /,/, $_[0], 8) . "</td></tr>\n" })
  2. How would I need to change the code if I wanted to add another display option, such as filtering by name?
  3. If you have time, how would you like to review the code I use to get the data from an HTML page and parse it? (would be much appreciated, I know you might have a whole lot of better things to do :) )
Thank you very much for all of your help!

In reply to Re^2: Printing data from a file in various ways by oomwrtu
in thread Printing data from a file in various ways by oomwrtu

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