Nothing's wrong with what you said, it worked great. I just am new to Perl, and don't know how to do everything yet. :) As to having the @array2 variable in my code, sorry about that. That was from one of my experiments to try to get it to work. My editor has this wacky Power Undo thing that undoes like 5 things at a time and I don't always catch it. Thanx for your help, I'm gonna try and understand it now.

- p u n k k i d
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein