note brian_d_foy There is also the Perl pragma's, using perldoc, several mentions of the perl documentation, using Data::Dumper, using the perl debugger, checking module versions, setting the environment in %ENV, using Test::Harness, and probably a few other things. :) <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-366986"> -- <br /> brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org> </div></div> 376075 376112