Dr. Ruud wrote: > Because of RaiseError, that 'or die' is unreachable code
That's good to know. I wasn't aware of that. I'm reading up on it now. Thanks! Gurpreet Singh wrote: > Just use a boolean "read_Primary_Key" (default false) and then true after > reading the first line. Now why didn't I think of that! ;) Of course - that makes sense. The first time through the loop, $primary_key is undefined. So I added: $primary_key = $key unless defined ($primary_key); This allowed me to get rid of the redundant $count, and to shrink the number of lines by four, as well. Thanks, Marc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/