hi again i posted yesterday the message below and i have checked the FAQ (can´t work it out from that) but i´m in an akward position; i´m sitting on a windows machine (at work) and need to upload my perl script as a cgi to a unix-server. can anyone show me a very simple working example if i have these two files: thanks allan 1.txt: hello world here is the old date today is the 9th of july more stuff 2.txt: 9 10 11 12 i just need to know the basic procedure of how to get the figure "10" from 2.txt into the fourth line of 1.txt (so it reads: "today is the 10th of july") (org message:) hi this should be easy .. i have two files. the first is about 1000lines long and have at certain points (which are easy enogh to find) some figures which i have to update (substitute) every day. the second file contain only the new figures which i have split up with one figure on each line. how do i get those new figures into that first file? hope you´re not bored cheers allan ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ==== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-anyperl-request@macperl.org