note phenom Thank you very much, pg. There were two extra things I was trying to use here for learning purposes: hashes and the lines pertaining to the regex under get_days. Hashes, since I understand the basics about them, but not more advanced stuff (like the array of hashes, hashes of hashes, blah blah blah); and also, I had just seen someone here recently use the following: <code> my $blah = join('|', @array); </code> to produce the automatic "or" effect. Thanks again!! 312663 312715