btrott, that is exactly what I was looking for. It seems to work perfectly and when I dumped it into a much larger and more substantial script, everything came out exactly the way I wanted it. After reading about the dispute that's keeping this module from CPAN, all I can think is that everyone needs to put their frickin' egos aside and let people use this.

Personally, I'm going to send an e-mail to the author thanking him for creating this and perhaps urge him to upload it anyway (I'll have to reread the correspondence, but we really could use this module). I wonder how many other people were beating their heads over this situation and were being forced to do it by hand?

A thousand thanks!!!

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: I read the correspondense too quickly. I'll definitely thank the author, but I think I was premature in thinking I would urge him to upload regardles of the dispute. I have to confess that I sympathize with Abraham's feeling's about Net::Whois's source code (well, he hinted at them, he didn't explicitly state them). It looks pretty ugly.

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