Thank you all for the suggestions and code samples to be honest with perl I'm like with spanish or dutch. I can understand, and if I have enough 'samples' I can modify to my needs but can't come up with anything all by myself. Yet. But I'm learning. I can't learn by reading syntax codes or theory, I learn by seeing tons of codes. That's how I learned php, sql, c, c#, ps, bash, and a few others. None on very high level though. Once again, great inputs from all of you thanks! I'll be able to put together the code that does the magic now Gabe