>
> That's exactly right. I meant that, if you were using an external file,
> you only needed to replace the line
>
> my $fh = *DATA;
>
> with
>
> open my $fh, '<', 'myfile.txt' or die $!;
>
> which is pretty much what you have done. Unfortunately I made a mistake
> and wrote
>
> while (<DATA>) {
>
> in the first loop, when it should be the same as the second loop which
> reads
>
> while (<$fh>) {
>
> My apologies.
>
> Rob
>No apologies necessary, I'm just very happy that I could figure it out and resolve it without any help :) And so I'm a little bit wiser thanks to your help! Like someone said before, Rob you rock! Wernher
