Greetings fellow monk ,

From a newbie to a newbie :

May i add to the complete answer you've already had that when you have such a simple question , try first perldoc perlfunc . A lot of perl functions are self-explicit ( even if there are lots of ways to make their use more elaborate and complicated ) . I'm sure that if you had seen "exit" in the perlfunc page , you would have guessed that was what you were looking for ...

At the beginning , it may take twice as much time to find a solution , but then you learn twice as fast ... I think it's a good deal ;-)

the little one.