Just to clarify $d is NOT a perl variable it is a switch operator used by sed, which I believe is a regular exprssion type of command in UNIX/Linux. Also I believe there already is something similar to what you are proposing in the code already: 
$bkp_info = `sed -e :a -e "{$d;N;2,3ba}" -e "{P;D}" /db2/$DB2DBDFT/Mes
+sages/temp.txt`;

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I am not sure if there is much difference in having the key word "my" in front of the variable that you have versus not having it. I have changed the backticks to double quotes and I have also tried using the curly braces as well in conjunction with and without backticks and/or double quotes all to no avail.

I will try your suggestion and let you know the outcome. Thanks for replying. Could this be a bug?

In reply to Re^4: Troubleshooting question by elittle
in thread Troubleshooting question by elittle

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