On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 11:00:05PM -0500, Ingo Weiss wrote: > use Image::Info qw(image_info dim);
> I have worked with modules before (CGI.pm) but I can't really make sense > of the qw-syntax in line 1. Your real question has been answered, so I'll just explain that qw(a string of words) is essentially syntactic sugar for split ' ', 'a string of words'. It allows you to write things like: use Image::Info qw(image_info dim); intead of use Image::Info 'image_info', 'dim'; HTH, Ronald