in reply to reading HTML file

This is just a hunch, but your problem may be that you are trying to get an array from the result() method, which really only returns a scalar or a reference

Try using the paramsout() method instead if you really are receiving an array (list?) - and look into the paramsall() method which combines result() and paramsout().

jeffa

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