note jeroenes Not <i>exactly</i>. <p> While it is better (and I mean really, really better) to use the functional [glob], you still can force perl to interpolate variables. Actually, only filehandles and simple scalars are not interpolated (see [perlop]). So these: <code> @dir=<$hash{$key}>; @dir=<$array[0]>; @dir=<$object->method>; @dir=<${foo}>; # and even @dir=<$structure{'filehandle'}>; </code> are interpreted as [glob]s. Note that this is a caveat in the last case! Since you probably want the <> to do a [readline] in the last case, people really need to be aware that nested structures are always [glob]bed. Only simple, straightforward variables like $foo result in [readline]s. <p> <p> Jeroen<br> <i>"We are not alone"(FZ)</i> 117669 117674