note Jouke Reading the first part of your posting I was thinking you wanted suggestions...I was almost starting to post a node were I suggested to use 'package main' (which is already in quite a few of my scripts)...but then you provided the answer yourself [DrHyde]++ <div class="pmsig"> <div class="pmsig-27919"> <br><br> <i>Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'</i><br> <small>Using Perl to help the disabled: <a href="http://www.pvoice.org">pVoice and pStory</a> </div></div> 344952 344952