note Anonymous Monk I'm new to perlmonks (and somewhat to perl) and I hope this acidic comment is an isolated case concerning reactions to people who post useful tutorial tidbits. I for one understood the original post very well. Granted, I think that total newbies might be a bit confused by "print" returning a string. Still, don't you think it's better providing a clarification in a less ...overbearing... tone? :) 135462 135530 -2