note phenom Those will come in handy with regular expressions. You should have perldoc installed on your system, so try: <code>perldoc perlrequick </code> and <code> perldoc perlretut</code>. <code> print "Matched!\n" if($user =~ /^aristotle73$/i); </code> Try reading those first. They'll give you a better idea. HTH. 418846 418846