Thanks ww. I appreciate taking the time to comment on the post. I do understand is a lot of code, but since I'm starting to learn how to do PERL there's a lot of things I'm not familiar with. Did not want to leave anything out in case there's something obvious I have not done. Apologize for the lengthy post (and now the long response, lol). Guess I was more focused on the solution than comunincating it well on the forum. Will do better next time.

Thanks for the info about the profiler and other options, this is a one time script for a very specific task. a one and done type of deal. So need to weigh all the options and see how much more effort to dedicate. Thanks again from Dominican Republic. Come visit.

In reply to Re^2: Optimization of script by JulioRD
in thread Optimization of script by JulioRD

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