Success!!!
I discovered another copy-and-paste-bug and now everything is
working. In Perl.
Problem between the keyboard and the chair.
The most common sort
_My_ keyboard and chair.
I stand by my statement *grin*
That's the problem with starting from a code that does things
differently, and does more.
It's a good thing I wrote this test case.

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