note Old_Gray_Bear Take a look at Damian Conway's book [ISBN://0-596-00173-8|'Perl best Practices'] and the attendant Perl module [cpan://Perl::Critic|Perl::Critic]. The Damian has some good points to make (and a few that I disagree with). Running your code through perl-critic at a reasonable level of strictness (-4 or for the very masochistic -3) can be enlightening. <p> Also <c>use warnings</c> in addition to <c>use strict</c> -- suspenders and belt.... <!-- Node text goes above. Div tags should contain sig only --> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-290905"> <p> ----<br> I Go Back to Sleep, Now. <p> OGB </div></div> 907061 907061