Thanks for the reply, 2teez.

I'm also on a *NIX box (FreeBSD). It looks like I may not have used the best word to describe my ultimate goal (unify). What my ultimate goal is. Is to parse files recursively, and based on their format (iso-*-*, line endings, perhaps trailing spaces) unify them, in the sense that they are all the same in those respects. Ultimately (for me) utf-8, *NIX line endings, with no trailing spaces. I don't have a lot of difficulty making the conversions, so much as I have "tasting" the file before hand. So as to convert it w/o buggering it up. For example, a file in a different (spoken) language that isn't already utf-8. Knowing in advance, what it is, and converting it to utf-8 can be tricky. Even tho I know Perl is pretty good at it.

I'm still searching, and while I haven't found a complete solution. I did find a couple of interesting Text::Filter Modules that may help in cobbling something up. In fact, their pretty nice general purpose Filters for a lot of things: Text::Filter, and Text::Filter::Chain. If I don't use them for this project. I can sure think of a lot of other things to use tham with. :)

Thanks again, 2teez, for the reply.

--Chris

Yes. What say about me, is true.