ikegami, I just re-read your response and must admit that I am now confused and a bit curious...not by your response (which is clear and wise), but by the result I just got. I just re-tested my old code (without the chomp()) and it still fails. But when I run it with the chomp(), it works.

Your information regarding readdir() is, in fact, what I, too, had assumed (more from naivete rather than real knowlege) in the original code and was why I hadn't thought to do the chomp()).

Unfortunately, now I'm not sure I understand why adding in the chomp() would matter...would make the code succeed.

I think it's time to go back and dig into the original version of my code (i.e., pre-chomp() version) and see if I can ferret out what is going on. I'm sure it is a mistake that I've made in the code; I'm just not sure where to start beyond what I'd already done. But is should be a good learning and growing experience for me.

For what it's worth, I'm running on Perl 5.8.0

Again, thanks, ikegami

ack Albuquerque, NM

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