Hmm. I've tried that code as well. The "strict" and "warnings" commands are very helpful indeed. It's pointing out some mysterious errors on a particular line:

Possible unintended interpolation of @whatever in string at myscript.pl line 158.
Possible unintended interpolation of @whatever in string at myscript.pl line 158.
Global symbol "@whatever" requires explicit package name at myscript.pl line 158.
Global symbol "@whatever" requires explicit package name at myscript.pl line 158.
Execution of myscript.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

The line in question is a simple print command immediately following the last line of the code I am posting. Line 157 is the system() command causing all the trouble...

use strict;
use warnings;

my $address = 'myemail@whatever.com';
my $subject = 'Comments Version: $version  ID: $ID';

# backslash the @ sign in the address
$address =~ s/@/\\$1/g;

system( "mail $address -s $subject < blah6.txt" ) == 0
    or die "mail failed:  $?";

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By the way, $ID is a 10-character alphanumeric string, and $version is something like "5.3" or "5.4" or "Nightly" (sans quotes, of course).

Any thoughts? I appreciate all the help so far, by the way. I'm a self-professed perl newb, and can use all the suggestions I can get. Thanks!

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