Heh... Couldn't resist and had to have a look from home :)

Hmm... Thx for those latest suggestions; I always love this about Perl - TMTOWTDI :)

Will try a couple of these techniques when I get back to work tomorrow. These examples would be useful placed in the Snippets Section, I think... as extracting delimited fields (and not simple CSV-type data) from a text string is something that I certainly do a lot.

Thanks again for the most useful information.