whahey - the code works, a big list of associations and extenstions scrolls by, albiet puntuated with complaints about being unable to recognise association list and use of unitialised values or string in concatenation...

"unable to recognise association list" is not an error. I'd remove the line that outputs that, but I didn't know if you were planning on focusing on a specific extention later on.

The uninitalized value is because you ran it without strict, and because I accidently used used $class where I should have $ext. (Copy and paste error.)

on another note I now just need to mod this so that it can accept some arguments and ergo change associations - I'm trying to make a setup that will automatically change the default browser on an ME system

Why are you looping if you are looking for a specific extention?

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