Re^2: Need Speed:Search Tab-delimited File for pairs of names

[educated_foo]

Commenting out strict and warnings is a big mistake: it doesn't fix the reported issues;

Why not? I can't diagnose this, because I'm not running on Windows, but it seems like you're chanting boilerplate at the questioner. Which of his mistakes would be caught by adding those strings?

[GrandFather]

The bad sub prototype and the interesting use of 'our'. That is assuming that variables are declared appropriately.