Is there a way to check my perl path besides having to ask the host. I use CPanel...

option 1.
perl path might be on the front page of you CPanel interface

option 2
if you have shell access symply type in
whereis perl

option3
keep changing path in your script by the time you get the correct location
/usr/bin/perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
.....
/random/letters/and/slashes/perl

It shows '/usr/bin/perl'...is that the correct one? And do I have to do anything to that code?

This will be the first line in your perl program:

#!/usr/bin/perl

Do this if you want see the warnings (errors) from the script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w


Now just write the rest of the script.

thanks ALOT for the help.