I haven't followed all of this thread (it was digressing there for a while).
Would perlbrew be a solution for the OP. I've only been using it a short
while but it makes installing and using a custom perl very simple.
I installed the preconfigured version from active state recently and was
I'm new to writing perl and perl in Mac OS X, although I've had plenty of
AppleScript experience. In fact, at one time, a lot of the Apple Support site
relied on scripts I wrote to get data from point A to point B via AppleScripts
I wrote.
Anyhow, I'm playing around with reading in some
