The advice to use concatenation instead of substitution is good. That said, I can only see one reason why your code wouldn't work: you misspelled $path as $paht. Using strict will catch errors like that for you. Also, the /g regex modifier is unnecessary in this case. Update: Oops, two reasons. You should have quotes around "RTE/hull/TR" as well.

-- Mike

--
just,my${.02}