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This helps a ton, kcott! I've been using Perl for a long time, but my focus is mostly on string processing and regular expressions. It's high time I got an education in other areas, and I feel like I've gotten a good start in this thread.

Thanks so much to you and the others who have lent a hand to help me work through this problem.