Thank you. I will look in the modules called by the 'use' statements and review them further. BTW. This is my first time using this site. It looks like it will be very helpful. In my job I have to support & create scripts in sh, bash, ksh, csh, expect, and perl so I don't get dedicated time in a single language. In my perl coding I have not used modules very much. I did just post the code in this thread.