note damian1301 I may be wrong, but I don't think you are supposed to have those brackets around your offset. Another way to do what you want is simply to do something like...<code> my($user, $var) = split /:/, $_, 2; $foo{$user} = $var;</code><BR><BR>Or maybe I've misunderstood something <BR><BR> <code> $_.=($=+(6<<1));print(chr(my$a=$_));$^H=$_+$_;$_=$^H; print chr($_-39); # Easy but its ok. </code> 92997 92997