note rpnoble419 Have you tried saving the variables to a disk file using YAML? YAML allows you to save your variables and then read them back in at a later time or as I use it to set up a global configuration file between all of my Perl scripts. Using YAML also allows you to pass very complex data between applications that otherwise would cause a script to fail if the same data was passed as a command line argument.<br><br> [mod://YAML] 985681 985681