note Flame First it declares and scopes $k. Then it asks if $dir has a value (in other words, it's not undef). If that is true it then tries to capture everything up to a slash (careful, this looks unpredictable to me, might pass over multiple /'s) and place it into $1. If that succedes, it sets $back_one to $1.<br/><br/> Hope this helps. <br/><br/> <hr width=100% size=2 noshade/><br/> <p>My code doesn't have bugs, it just develops random features.</p> <p>Flame ~ Lead Programmer: <a href="http://guildms.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none">GMS</A> (DOWN) | <a href="http://gms.uoe.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none">GMS</A> (DOWN)</p> 259865 259865