Hey Dave, thanks for the reply.

Ok, that makes sense then. I was wondering because I do certain things in the script like splicing out some lines from that
file and stuff like that so a few times it would say something like "<$fh> line 101", but when I'd check the file there
would only be 80 or something less then what it reported... So that makes a little more sense now.

Do you think I should use something other then "die" there? Maybe just "exit", or something like that?

Thanks again for the explanation, much appreciated!

Thanks Again,
Matt