I've been out of perl for a while, so I am starting from scratch. I have a small applet which scans a set of directories, getting information from some files in each one, and displaying selected data.

The script works good, but I need to set in some tabbing on the terminal, and that is where the problem comes in. as soon as I attempt a division, the applet blows up, and it is not a divide by 0 error.

I have tested the particular...