I know it does, hence the message re variance. Heck, Win32 systems don't even use the #!/usr/bin/perl line at all, so it was completely superfolous on the system it was created on. I just needed some more filler, really. 8)

And there isn't any whitespace after the lines; that's rather the point: characters within a comment are relevant to the correct operation of the program in this case! 8)

Spacewarp

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