Hanging around the monastry will learn you many more neat tricks. To name a few:

1. use strict and warnigns and diagnostics or die
2. lingual-like for/while/if/unless constructs, eg.

   print "I love perl ".$_++." times\n" while m/vroom/;
   print "Bwech" unless m/perl/ or not substr($^O, 'linux' );
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3. split (/tell chipmunk I did resist the temptation)
4. eval
5. .... and many others.

Mehopes you will enjoy the wonders of perl!

Jeroen
"We are not alone"(FZ)