I have experience in C++ and (recently) VBA I've actually written the program in VBA but it only throws an error if there is something in the database and not the directory. But I would like to know if there is something hanging out in my directories that shouldn't be there as well. And I am reading the tutorials right now. Most of my questions are about syntax and perl specific issues. For example if I make this on my linux pc at home will I have to change anything other than directory name on the windows pc at work.