Am I right in thinking that if you double quote the seperator in split the seperator is added to the array ie:
@array3=split(/"\t/",$value4); would add \t to the end of @array3 while @array3=split(/\t/,$value4); would not -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>