Hi All, Many thanks to those who have replied so quickly with constructive input, I do appreciate it. I would like to address one issue though. I'm 'NOT' a school boy or someone doing this for a living! I am learning Perl out of interest in Web design and a part of doing so I wanted to come up with a method of doing what I have asked. Every part of Perl writings says it's versitile and will do anything and I thought about having it return stats from a text file. The problem is that every part of my research discusses how to OPEN, PRINT, WRITE etc and even how to address databases, but nothing on how to gather the statistics in a text file. I realised that the answer had to be a simple one but in all books etc it do not 'actually' discuss this method specifically, hence my question in a forum that could help! I am eager to learn more so how are we able to do that if we can't ask questions? Regards all!

In reply to How do I gather and output info about a file's contents? by aureum

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