You are right, of course, about needing a templating system, and it should be a do later upgrade if I continue to use this script. For now I am focused on getting the actual document created ASAP. All of my input is trusted since I am writing it. You did make a good point about the quotes. Perhaps I will change those quotes to qq(). One thing that I do not want to do is have a third list of the variables that I need to change every time I add a variable or modify a variable name. Maybe I will use one of the scripts that you have suggested after I take a few minutes to grok that regex or whatever that is.