Reinventing Proc::ProcessTable? (was Re^5: Equal strings don't match!)

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Looks like you're trying to reinvent Proc::ProcessTable. I'd recommend you to use that, at least this way you'll avoid most of the pitfalls your code presents (it may crash in a million ways as you don't handle the *many* errors that may occur when processing files from such a volatile file-system as /proc).