note japhy I wrote an article "Common Perl Pitfalls" for TPJ. It's found on my web site ([http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/]). <br><br> <tt><font color="#0000ff">japhy</font></tt> -- <a href="/index.pl?node=japhy&lastnode_id=1072">Perl and Regex Hacker</a> 46769 46769