On Feb 6, John said: >#!/usr/bin/perl -w > >use Strict;
You are using Windows (sorry). Please change that line to use strict; Because Windows is case-INsensitive, 'use Strict' loads strict.pm, but because Perl is case-sensitive, the effects of strict.pm are never enabled. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]