yes, you caught both
It is a bit of a shame you edited the original posted code, as now "new" readers will not see the changes you made based on the comments you got, and the comments now make no sense at all (for those people).
As you learn from perlmonks, readers that stumble on this post no wdo not learn from the code changes. (FWIW By learning from changes I do not imply that all changes are always correct, but discussion about them makes you take desicions that are more thought-through.
Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
