Regarding "cryptic abbreviations", do you know about "use English;"? It provides readable names for all the "ugly punctuation variables". It's included as part

Regarding "cryptic abbreviations", do you know about "use English;"? It provides readable names for all the "ugly punctuation variables". It's included as part of the core Perl install. http://perldoc.perl.org/English.html http://perldoc.perl.org/English.html