Thanks for the response. I just started messing around with perl a week or two ago and most of the good code I stole from a 'real' perl programmer, so I do not really know what is going on in lines 14-19. The original script just printed the output of a form so that you knew what was going into it. However, I have stumbled my way through the rest of the code and I am working with reg-ex now - learning. I will continue this tomorrow. Nap time.