No one's replied to your post yet, so here's a hint: post some more information on what you tried, what worked, and what didn't, along with what environment you're working under (OS, version of Perl, and so forth).

Without that information, it's virtually impossible to guess which one of a thousand things might be wrong.

Good luck!

--t. alex

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