Hi, I am on my third "large" programming project. First I was using TTCN and ASN1 for testing (check it out) in the second one I was using classic C; and in my third, Perl. What I find interesting, is that once you have learned some C, Perl seemed to be easy to start with. Perl has been powerful tool for file/text handling in my case. I really enjoy Perl, most of things I have needed were available in www sites. Of course when you learn more you also notice how little you know. BR Hewarn