Chas.... I understand now... my bad. Anyway it is printing the two elements of not computing the difference.

root@stkv440-srvA [ / ]-> perl /usr/local/bin/ohiohealth/filecp_chk.OH
+.pl
64696

64684

Difference is: 64696 - 64684
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I got it... I was a matter interpolation in my print statement. THANK YOU CHAS!!!! : ) Have a nice week!