note merlyn No, I would argue that you have to finish parsing the file. Which puts it at a 50% success rate. Unless you have knowledge ahead of time of all possible environments that could succeed or fail in the remaining code. <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-9073"> <p>-- [http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/|Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker] <p>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. </div></div> 854137 854269