At 06:40 PM 1/16/00 -0800, you wrote: >chomp(my @dict = `cat /usr/dict/words`); For those of us who usually use Windows machines, is there any real analog to this? I guess I could just say chomp( my @dict = 'type words.txt'); We're not used to thinking of the DOS command line programs as being useful. xoxo, Andy -- Andy Lester: andy@petdance.com http://petdance.com/ <CF_BOOK TITLE="Practical ColdFusion"> ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe