Yeah, that is what I needed. I don't claim to be a paticularly good programmer. I knew there was something like that but I just could not find it.
Thanks,
Not knowing the names of Perl's cryptic $punctuation variables does not a bad programmer make. Better to know how and where to look on the (many) occassions you find you don't know something. perldoc, Super Search, Google are usually good bets.