Just wanted to say thanks for your 'perl' of wisdom. You've put me on to good form, and I appreciate it. I'm very much a newbie when it comed to perl and programming form in general. I'm usually one to say "as long as it works...". When I first wrote this code, I wasn't sure about using variable variables, but my mentor seemed to think it was ok. The thing was, the code worked, i just couldnt get the label variables update working. I've cleaned up alot of the code, and its working nicely. I'll post the reformed code if anyone is interested. Thanks again!