for others who are just starting out...

[denise]

...like me, and have spent time tearing your hair out over "Global symbol $foo requires strict checking"-type errors and have occasionally been reduced to finding sections of code that do something like what you want to and copying them, I come bearing tutorials:

Coping with Scoping

It made so much suddenly make sense.

Comments

[yvi]

Wow, there actually is a Perl error I haven't yet seen :D

(I was pretty sure I had seen *every* single one of them by now)