Seriously, this should be posted with your little test code on the book I picked up! I need to find a better book...

Now, I play with sub routines and play more with sort...I feel GOOD about Perl this morning...hopefully, some break through in my learning today ;-)

I've briefly read, rather GLANCED, at a posting while trying to figure out the $a and the $b question I posted here. Any way, File::Compare(I think it was defined like this on google search)module be an option?