Thank you all for your ideas and input. I have tried your suggestions to no avail. The extra space is being added when the form entry is being written to the text file ie in the saves part. This is evident when I take a look at the text file.

I have tried this script on multiple servers and with different browsers with the same result. Im sure it does not have quotes.

jeffa i do not understand alot of what you have said. Why is it bad to mix html with perl?? Is this a functional or speed issue?? Of interest I tried adding use(strict) and got pages of errors.

Anyone have a magic bullet??
James