Thanks for the wit :)

I was stuck in regex land, looking for a pattern to match the first Uppercase char.

I must also clarify the telephone number question, I'm looking for a "rulebook" for international numbers so I can compensate for different locations, the NA number format is fairly straight-forward but european countries and others don't seem to conform, ie. in the UK an area code could be one or 4 numbers, depending on location.

And yes, I'll always be learning... this post was just a "I'm at a loss, and need to ask a fellow perl programmer" I'll admit the answer was simple. And thank you for yours.