Thank you RichardK, tremendously. Hope I wasnt asking for too much. I researched this all week in various searches and I was up till 2 a.m. this morning. I even scanned through the perl programming book from O'Rielly but like with anything else, it takes the right direction or the right search in google. This will give me a push in the right direction for more searching. Thanks for your quick reply. I'll let you all know what I did with it." Julian