That is exactly what I need ($attach->delete) THANK YOU!!!

btw, The XML::Twig module is absolutely awsome. It has greatly reduced the amount of work I need to do on this project (we had been using just plain old XML::Parser tree with a load of magic numbers to identify elements)

Out of curiosity, is Scalar::Util installed with the base perl packages? cause I don't recall installing it separately but it seems to be on my system.

Thanks again.