Hi thanks for your help. I didnt write the survey script, Im only trying to hack it for aesthetics sake. My client didnt like how the title looked with _ chars in it. Anyway I added the code you suggested ( I use seach and replace every day thru command line for line breaks etc ) so maybe I didnt explain myself correctly, I knew how to do the replace just wasnt sure of the structure for it. Again thanks and heres what I added 
$String = "$survey"; 
$String =~ s/_/ /g;

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then called $string instead of $survey in the html title simple huh?? see you around and thanks for everyone who posted. p.s. when the boss gives me a few minutes to breath Ill read the links as suggested. Mark R

In reply to Re: Re: URGTENT: Need to remove undescore characters by markinoz
in thread Replacing underscore characters with whitespace by markinoz

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