Oh my god was it that simple? I never tried that because, looking at the structure it looks like it's a scalar that contains an array and 2 loose elements (rm and dummy). But now I've read your comments on the structure I get it. Never thought of it like that. Thanks a lot :-). My Perl skills went down bigtime since I've been programming PHP for a few months again and have had nothing to do with Perl. I could've known it, darn :-P. In any case, I thank you a lot! Problem solved and I know now how to use these things in Perl.