Good point. As mentioned previously, when I first replied to this I didn't have WWW::Mechanize installed and based my reply on the OP's comment. But later this evening I did install the module. And what do you know, the original script worked just fine. I did test the script with my suggestion for using an array and join, and it worked fine. Of course joining a scalar does nothing, so that obscured the success of the original script (my change worked despite the join, not because of it).