Yeh, Ive been reading 'Advanced Perl Programming' by Siram Srinivasan and I'm trying to do something useful with what I'm learning. The prog was just to sort out the subroutine. Then I was going to re-use it in another programme to automate some tasks on a small network(in my front room, not on the net) that ive been playing round with.

So I guess White hat....... with a faint blue or pink tinge after the missus has washed it.