hi, again.. here is my little script.. every time i tried to run it, seems that is not able to read input file. Is there something that i missed in my script below ? thanks lorenzo alcatel@alexiim-as1:~> ./lorenzo.pl /home/alcatel/.scripts/table.dbdm1 Could not open : No such file or directory alcatel@alexiim-as1:~> #!/usr/bin/perl use PDF::Create; open(F, "<$input") or die "Could not open $input: $!\n"; while (<F>) { chomp; print "$_ \n"; #shows you what we have read } close F;