> Yes, thank you. :) > (except the echo| didn't work for my code.) Depending on your flavor of Unix, "echo" with no further arguments will either return a newline, or nothing. In the latter case, since there is no input, you will get out of the loop. Julien ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe