note tye <blockquote><i><c> eval $ARGV[ 0 ]; </c></i></blockquote><p> The output from <c>perl -MO=Deparse</c> disagrees with you. [eval] isn't the "problem", [BEGIN] is. </p> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-22609"><p align="right"> - [tye]<tt> &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;</tt> </p></div></div> 663393 663422