Mark

> but it seems to me that Perl is trying to be clever (as many compilers
> do too) and is telling you that you have assigned a value to reply in
> one place, and never used it, which (to Perl at least) seems a bit
> pointless and more likely to be a typo on your part.

You are exactly right, I later ran the script with:

use diagnostics -verbose;

added in and it explained that very thing.


> > Removing the -w will therefore "fix" this but I suspect you might otherwise 
> > benefit from
> > the warnings it's giving you, so I think turning that off at this stage 
> > should be a last
> > resort.

Right again. Now I know what to expect I will probably benefit more by 
including it for a little while longer.

Stu




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