Hi All, I like your book, but I'm sortof new to Perl and certainly new to Perl on a Mac. I have what I think should be a relatively simple task that I hope MacPerl will be able to handle. I have literally hundreds of files with goofed up names that I would like to rename. The actions fall into several broad categories. So I'll describe each by and example. 1) filename 1 --> filename1 2) filename 1 --> filename_1 3) filename.ext --> filename 4) filename --> filename.ext I think I could handle the first one by passing each filename to a regular expression searching for the first blank something like "(*) ([1-9]+)" and then doing a rename to $1$2. The second example is very simple (I think) s/\s/_/; The third would be "(*).*" renaming to $1 The fourth would be "(*)" renaming to $1.ext I see in the book the reserved work "rename(OLDNAME,NEWNAME) which looks like it'll do the trick something like this for the first example: $currentname = "(*) ([1-9]+)"; $newname = $1$2; rename($currentname,$newname); The thing I don't know how to do is pass a list of filenames to the script either by dragging and dropping a folder of bunch of files and then how to process the list. I'm sure I can't be the first person to ask this type of question so rather than write the script for me, do you know where I might be able to get an example that would point me in the right direction? TIA, --John +-----------------------------------+ | John McDermon | | john@mcdfamily.com | | http://www.mcdfamily.com | +-----------------------------------+ ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-anyperl-request@macperl.org